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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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 think there are some people who are just kind of born to create drama and then capitalise on it.
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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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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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The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
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I like how steady the work in television is. Films, they're hard to come by. They're elusive. I've done a couple, independently financed. You do them, and maybe a few people will see them.
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People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.
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I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive.
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When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.
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History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
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Pakistan is a peace-loving, democratic country.
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There was no child oncology in Uzbekistan and in Russia you don't have a chance because there are already so many on the waiting lists.
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We are giving assurance to the American families that help is on its way.
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Actually, because I'm so small, when I strike an open A chord I get physically thrown to the left, and when I play an open G chord I go right. That's how hard I play, and that's how a lot of my stage act has come about. I just go where the guitar takes me.
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People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
