Edmund Clarence Stedman Quotes
Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.
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The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
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Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.
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In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the planet who have voluntarily read all his novels.
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I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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The best way to help the Latino community is to give back. I love giving back; I'm quiet about God and what I do, but we do a lot in the Dominican Republic.
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In my job I meet many outstanding, world class, British based companies. But we need more companies and more jobs in the companies we have.
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Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
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The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
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The people who voted for President Obama are just beginning to wake up to exactly what they brought in. The 'change' they envisioned is not the 'change' they have gotten.
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I began to write in an enclosed, self-confident literary culture. The poet's life stood in a burnished light in the Ireland of that time. Poets were still poor, had little sponsored work, and could not depend on a sympathetic reaction to their poetry. But the idea of the poet was honored.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain the sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments. Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living. It is all we can offer in return for the mystery by which we live. Who is worthy to be present at the constant unfolding of time?
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You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.
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All United States presidents always say all options are open. But it is not on the table, it is not on the agenda. I happen to think that it is inconceivable.
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Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.
