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 think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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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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I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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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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Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.
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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
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I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
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A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
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When I was in high school, I hid in the back seat of an old boyfriend's car when he was out with another girl. He finally found me, but not until after he had made out with her for an hour.
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It's good to mind about things but not to give it too much weight, because there are some things you cannot change.
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I believe that global warming is a myth. And so, therefore, I have no conscience problems at all and I'm going to buy a Suburban next time.
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Being vegan is not the key to immortality. We're all going to get sick and die. But to know you're living without harming? That's the loveliest feeling.
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I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
