E. B. White Quotes
People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
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When you say, 'I spent my summers at the Jersey Shore,' people always say, 'Oh, really?' They think of the TV show. So I just say, 'A cute little harbor town in New Jersey.'
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We have just been working hard to have people to come out to vote and to make sure people understand how important the election is.
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Boxing is a sport. We allow each other to hit each other, but I'm not treating my opponent like my enemy. We're doing a job to entertain people.
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The reason I decided to run for Senate is one of my responsibilities as governor is to make sure that the voices of our people and our small businesses in New Hampshire are heard in Washington and that we continue to make the type of progress we're making here at the state level; we need that same type of response and progress in Washington.
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Who is that person that comes around and says, 'You are OK, you are worthy, you are special?' That makes all the difference in the world for many of us. Those are the people we appreciate the most.
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People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
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I love it when people travel to see one of my works, and I always make time to meet and talk with them.
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It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
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I meet an enormous number of incredible people all the time, people I find very inspiring, and I'm very busy.
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I think there are some people who are just kind of born to create drama and then capitalise on it.
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People actually perceived me with being this cat from the Bronx because I'm one of a handful of folks that was actually acting in 'Wild Style'.
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The huge difference in my lifetime is that you can just go up to somebody and make a pass. You couldn't do that in the 1950s if you were gay. There were secret handshakes, a secret language. There was nowhere you could go to be romantic outside of people's houses.
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We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent, dysfunctional government that pays no attention to the desires of the people. We are angry about the cesspool of corruption and conflicts of interests and self-dealing that is Albany.
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Intellectuals are people who manage the world in their head. They look at life and try to see some kind of truth, and if they cannot find it, they attempt to create it.
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I don't necessarily prefer playing villains. I know a lot of people say they are more fun, but if the scriptwriter has done their work well, you can find something realistic in a villain and find the mistakes in a hero - it's all down to the writing.
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I stopped caring so much about what people might think if I sung about love and humanity.
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With every animal, you have to build its confidence around people because people do some crazy and stupid things.
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I'm not very good at picking stuff up off the radio. It takes me way too long to learn other people's music.
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I wanted to have more time to play and reflect, but I find retirement more stressful than having a nice, steady job because I have to make decisions about where I want to be.
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The brain isn't like the heart. They learned how to transplant a heart. The brain is more complex.
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Each time I reach a goal or read a great review, I am beyond pleased.
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The Italians must allow us to slaughter the Momands, because, if we do not kill the warlike hillmen, they will kill us. And we must allow the Italians to slaughter the Danakils for the same reason.
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I was glad to play in the Negro Leagues. I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world.
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People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
