E. B. White Quotes
Everything (he kept saying) is something it isn't. And everybody is always somewhere else.
Quotes to Explore
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You'll never get rich by working for your boss.
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The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
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Well who's black and what is a black person?
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The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.
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I was desperate to go back to New York and when 9/11 happened, I feared moving to the bulls-eye and that was very hard because I have a lot of family there and I really had to question what I didn't like about this community.
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The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.
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The successful business executive can handle challenges and solve problems at a remarkable clip.
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Not every artist is a role model.
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The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.
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I found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry - as he wore dashikis and Afros in the '70s and named his kids Arabic names. He was a poet and a lot like The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron and all of these folks. He definitely was an artist.
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Post 9/11, brown people had this force pushing us together. It's like we're all being looked at with fear and suspicion; we're all being targeted, so how do you support yourself and your communities?
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We are beginning to see the benefits of global consolidation.
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It's always uncomfortable for me when I take off my shirt. No one else is taking their shift off. Why is everyone else in these movies bundled up in layers of clothing and I'm taking my clothes off all the time?
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I'm fascinated by male vulnerability.
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Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.
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In Romania, we have pledged to create a modern public service: well-educated, appropriately rewarded and above all, de-politicized.
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I got a few marriage proposals in my 20s. I just wasn't ready. I just knew if I committed, I would've wound up doing something wrong, messing it up. I still felt like I had some living to do.
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Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.
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I can't sing. Definitely no ambition in that area.
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There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.
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The passage he was to read was from Revelations - or Obfuscations, as he preferred to call them. Reading it over on the train from Cambridge, he had felt a strange desire to build a time machine so that he could take the author a copy of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason.
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Expressions of affection, like putting your arm around someone's shoulder, holding hands, or giving a kiss good night, involve the principle of honesty.
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You have to simply become aware of the movement of the mind, which begins this endless trouble.
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Everything (he kept saying) is something it isn't. And everybody is always somewhere else.
