E. B. White Quotes
The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything
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According to Teenage Research Unlimited, 51 percent of 13-15 year olds say they will be faced with making a decision regarding alcohol in the next three months.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
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The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.
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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
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In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our weird little creative circle, no one cares who has faster fists, but to lose an argument suggests inferior intelligence.
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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I'm a rock singer, but I love soul, I love blues, and I love theatrical stuff, too, like theatrical rock like Queen and Meat Loaf.
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Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame joke-telling. They're drawn to it as a career move.
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Being a display pilot is probably the thing I've been most proud of in my life. Don't really fly anymore now though. I have three small children and as most of my friends were killed in different accidents, I realised that it was probably just a matter of time before I went that way.
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I was just lucky I lived in this time of mass-market paperbacks.
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Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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Lying in the political sphere has gotten out of hand, and because people tend to dismiss things that challenge their preconceived notions of the world, fact checkers can only play a small part in remedying the problem.
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I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.
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On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn't be entitled to our political opinions.
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I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.
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I call white the most powerful non-color; it's clean, optimistic, powerful.
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After 'Pitch Perfect' premiered, I've got so many sweet expressions from people who enjoyed 'Pitch Perfect' and now the episode of 'Game of Thrones.'
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If you want to be famous, you can.
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I cannot escape the feeling that I was, at best, a cancer tourist, that my survival means I dabbled.
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The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything
