E. B. White Quotes
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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I've never considered myself to be a fashionista type of guy.
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This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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It's true about the eyes being the window to the soul. Your face can be etched with worry, and twisted by ageing, but the eyes tell the true story of who you are.
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I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
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There aren't many athletes who follow their hearts. They choose to go somewhere to win more and earn more money. They're like gypsies.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.
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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
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A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
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I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.
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The political process is rough and tumble by definition, and being grounded in faith in a Higher Power has proven helpful in navigating the difficult terrain.
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A great many people in this country are worried about law-and-order. And a great many people are worried about justice. But one thing is certain; you cannot have either until you have both.
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But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure.
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You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.
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I struggle as a writer, and I'm convinced that if I was at school now, I'd be termed as having ADS. Two minutes and I'm drifting.
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I'm not accomplished enough to over-analyze something, because I don't have the background as far as people who write and know how to break down a character or story and stuff. I mostly go by gut instincts.
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Whenever you're the child of a famous person, you get judged in odd ways because of that.
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The Jacques Cousteau shows actually got me very excited about the fact that there's an alien world here on Earth.
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I'd like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
