John Muir Quotes
I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.
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I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.
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I moved into this neighborhood, and I was walking on this beach with my kids, and we came across a sign that said, 'Water's polluted, no swimming.' And I didn't have any answers.
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You can bring people together around the issue of economic fairness. I don't want to be a mayor that goes into one neighborhood and gets jeered, and goes into another neighborhood and gets cheered.
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What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal - that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.
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Kids get a lot of lip service in disaster planning, but they tend to get far fewer resources than they need. The mantra of 'children are our most valuable resource' is almost never matched by actual funding.
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I don't like cooking just for myself; I enjoy feeding other people, particularly outdoors.
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I got hit with an octopus in Detroit one time. It was the most gross thing I've ever had happen. I got it right in the back of the neck; all the juice was coming down. It was awful.
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Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.
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I would have to say that I have to concentrate more when I'm doing comedy. There are so many details that make up any character, but developing a character for a dramatic role seems to come more naturally.
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You need to have extraordinary wisdom to be the forerunner.
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It's true that I love to connect with my fans on the social networking sites, but I try not to go overboard, ever. I just give people a peek into my mind space, but never bombard them with my tweets.
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I'd love to work with Michael Buble, with Tony Bennett, with Damian Marley, with Andrea Bocelli.
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Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
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I'm very picky about what I'll do and the message the film has in it.
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I have to arrange my life very carefully. I need eight hours' sleep to work.
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Poetry from the bottom up is an act of selection: you kind of feel your way through the crowds of poems. The good ones came forward a long time ago, and the bad ones fell away.
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The spirit is the only thing that is free within, which has no hang-ups, which has no habits, which does not stick on to anything, is completely detached and emitting joy to us.
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The musket could not be aimed except in a general direction; a bow in the hands of a skilled archer could regularly hit and kill an enemy completely beyond musket range.
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I used to dress like an eight-year-old boy. Traveling has inspired me to be more experimental.
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I'm not an oddball.
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I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
