E. B. White Quotes
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I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.
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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
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I'm always about, 'What is the most productive version of what I'm putting into the world?' Something that can be engaged by all folks. I don't have to change everyone.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
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I've been influenced by some of the greatest designers. Charles Eames. And Bruno Munari in the '50s in Italy - when they had to retool the industry of war into an industry to help society. In a way, I'm influenced by designers that were there at a radical time of change.
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I am not predicting here that Obama will fail like Jimmy Carter. What I am predicting is the Republican Party is not extinct and will after a period of time become a strong opposition party.
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I definitely had a hard time leaving for college because I'm not much of a risk-taker.
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Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
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It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams.
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Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.
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I suppose I flee to life. I'm most interested when conversations become difficult.
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I've done a lot of things that I regret.
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There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.
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You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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I have a phenomenal team behind me who have helped get me here and I, along with them, will now put everything we can into the final few weeks of preparations before the Olympic Games, where I am aiming to race well, work well through the rounds, post good times and maybe even a personal best time on the biggest stage of them all.
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Our World War II generation met the challenges of their time.
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I've always felt that my life's been at the right place at the right time; I feel like there's been some really dull moments, really high moments, really low moments, but it's always felt like everything's moved in the right direction; it always feels great, and everything feels right.
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It used to be that I was always paranoid or a loser or something so there's usually something that you seem to associate yourself with at one time or another.
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I never walk into the studio and say, I'm going to write a song called... 'X' or called 'Slow Me Down.' I write a ton of lyrics, often the title is somewhere in those 10 pages of... I call it brain vomit. It's kind of like whatever comes out of my head and I'm unabashedly just writing it down.
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The Founding Fathers worried that 'some common impulse of passion' might lead many to subvert the rights of the few. It's a rational fear, one that is played out endlessly.
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I take any opportunity I can to raise our country's flag really high and get some shining positive light on things over there.
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Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.
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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
