Wendell Berry Quotes
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.
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The less you have, the more you enjoy.
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You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
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Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.
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There are still so many movies made starring 50 men and one woman! A white male actor should never be allowed to complain about anything. Shut up and sit in the corner. I mean, seriously!
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I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.
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But with two boys and a new puppy, we don't get out much. We're usually home doing stuff together as a family, like watching 'Modern Family.'
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People work hard.
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The world is a global economy. I thought, 'It's a bummer we don't have a unifying currency.' Then I saw Bitcoin had already had a crash and had the resistance to recover. The community was strong enough to push it through again. That's really exciting.
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We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
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In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.
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While I love musical theater, it wasn't the right fit for me. It's so competitive, and I was at such a disadvantage, having started performing when I was 17.
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I sang the songs in 'The Doors'.
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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
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We are all lucky to be here, we are lucky to be on stage and have millions of people watch us.
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By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade of the mind.
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None but a people advanced to a high state of moral and intellectual excellence are capable in a civilized condition of forming and maintaining free governments, and among those who are so far advanced, very few indeed have had the good fortune to form constitutions capable of endurance.
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Regulators are power-lusting mediocrities.
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Bad things happen when people work together. Everything goes out of control.
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By the time I was in my teens, I was reading science fiction. I had this maternal uncle who had cartons of books. It's important to read because you have to fill your head with words.
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To be sane in a mad time is bad for the brain, worse for the heart.
