Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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A waning United States would likely be more nationalistic, more defensive about its national identity, more paranoid about its homeland security, and less willing to sacrifice resources for the sake of others' development.
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Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
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Gentrification always makes me laugh. People complain about traffic. Live in Atlanta! You can't have it both ways; you can't live in an incredible city and not expect it to get congested.
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A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.
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There is never a typical week. I don't think I can live with a typical week.
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My '50s were different than other people's '50s. The myth didn't permeate our world, 'Donna Reed' and all that. I longed for that, I wanted to be like other normal families on TV.
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It is possible for a woman to be a romantic, but also to be single and to be happy.
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From when I was a young boy, I read books on weapons and tanks and combat. I was so interested in the army.
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Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.
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The soul of Iran incarnate in the body of India.
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We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
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In half a lifetime, many Americans have seen their God dethroned, their heroes defiled, their culture polluted, their values assaulted, their country invaded, and themselves demonized as extremists and bigots for holding on to beliefs Americans have held for generations.
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Concrete poetry began for me with the extraordinary sense that the syntax I had been using , the movement of language within me, af a physical level was no longer there. So it had to be replaced with something else with a syntax and movement that would be true of this new feeling.
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This is the very contrary of dropping out. Most people can't wait to get home to their house or apartment and shut that door and turn on the TV. To me, that's dropping out.
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Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
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I got my start in lefty journalism as a labor reporter at 'In These Times', and it's in my blood.
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I strongly believe that the fundamental laws of nature are not emergent phenomena.
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It's certainly possible to write fiction that isn't trivial and isn't what people would call political, but it is very hard to figure out how, because our ordinary lives have such a strong tincture now of the whole world.
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For me, the kitchen is the most special room in the house. It's a place for adventure - not drudgery, but discovery, sharing and showing off with friends, trying new ideas.
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When I'm acting, I'm in a different place, singing is the last thing on my mind, and when I'm on stage, there's no acting at all involved, not even presentation, it's just who I am.
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I guess when I really think about it, God's voice sounds a lot like my voice.
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I have 120 employees on the road every day, and about 30 other employees off the road.
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That he is gentil that doth gentil dedis.
