E. B. White Quotes
Stuart rose from the ditch, climbed into his car, and started up the road that led toward the north...As he peeked ahead into the great land that stretched before him, the way seemed long. But the sky was bright, and he somehow felt he was headed in the right direction.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
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Bolivar's legacy has always been a part of the Venezuelan/Latin American imagery, especially in the countries that he liberated or he helped to liberate. He's been a very prominent figure.
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It's always an honour doing anything for your country.
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I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?
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The whole idea is whatever you do, have fun with it; try to make sure that it's quality and something you don't mind putting your name on.
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My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.
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Coming from a smaller place always made things feel more personal, which is really what it's all about.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.
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Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.
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Political pandering comes in all shapes and sizes, but every four years the presidential primary bring us in contact with its purest form - praising ethanol subsidies amid the corn fields of Iowa.
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The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.
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UNC symbolizes something special. When you get chills you know you belong here.
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Col. Shaffer is prohibited by his lawyer from talking. He's at great risk. They want to take away his pay and his health care benefits so they can hold it over his head and not allow him to talk while he's under suspension. This is not America.
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I never deny poems when they come; whatever I am doing, whatever I am writing, I lay it aside and attend to the arriving poem.
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Stuart rose from the ditch, climbed into his car, and started up the road that led toward the north...As he peeked ahead into the great land that stretched before him, the way seemed long. But the sky was bright, and he somehow felt he was headed in the right direction.
