E. B. White Quotes
Advice to young writers wo want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man.
Quotes to Explore
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey comedies; they are coming from real characters. We want our show to be like that. A family show.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.
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When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.
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I don't see why OPEC countries should continue to cut production just to keep the price of oil high. This will not affect the industrial countries alone, it will also hit poor countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Who will look after them?
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Asking why rappers always talk about their stuff is like asking why Milton is forever listing the attributes of heavenly armies. Because boasting is a formal condition of the epic form. And those taught that they deserve nothing rightly enjoy it when they succeed in terms the culture understands.
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You can think of all the things a Congress or a legislature does, and then you kind of overshadow that with the fact that a few people are going to make those decisions.
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Formula One has been the backdrop of my life.
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The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.
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Tattoos are like stories - they're symbolic of the important moments in your life. Sitting down, talking about where you got each tattoo and what it symbolizes, is really beautiful.
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Maybe if I could ever be a successful comedian then I could be an example that Christians can also have fun.
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I absolutely love working with David Boreanaz, and Charisma Carpenter I completely adore – she teaches me to dance.
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You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.
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According to Celtic law, all sons equally divided the inheritance and principalities of their father.
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What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You can't really run a two-hour opera round some muted murmuring.
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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
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Usually, old ladies tell me to find Jesus. Look, I'm just trying to find some chai and a good vegan muffin.
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I've chosen never to go on welfare. I feel as though it is my responsibility to do what I can to provide for my children.
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What I enjoy as entertainment is what I enjoy writing.
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Treat all men alike.... give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who is born a free man should be contented when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases. We only ask an even chance to live as other men live. We ask to be recognized as men. Let me be a free man...free to travel... free to stop...free to work...free to choose my own teachers...free to follow the religion of my Fathers...free to think and talk and act for myself.
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[The publication of his first poem] was wonderful ... but it taught me early on that the only thing that really matters is writing the next poem. Publication is best seen as a happy accident.
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Advice to young writers wo want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man.
