E. B. White Quotes
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Inflicting emotional distress has typically been treated as a civil action. How 'substantial' does the distress have to be for it to turn criminal?
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
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After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs.
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I am disappointed and disturbed by both the NFL and the Dodgers - but much more by the Dodgers.
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I'd rather try and cram in another two gags than leave a pause to say, 'Hey, wasn't that bit funny?'
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Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.
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I love wearing dresses that hug the body, but then, at the Oscars, I had a big dress, and I really loved that. It's a style I never thought I would wear, but I saw the dress, and I was like, 'Oh my God, that's it!'
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I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln - just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we've got a lot more work to do. And we're gonna keep on at it.
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We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'
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My resume, my career, and my legacy in this sport means more to me then collecting some checks.
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When Corporate America finds a Jayson Blair in its midst, the standard operating procedure is to circle the wagons and deny that any form of liability extends up the chain of command.
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Truth is the number one element in whatever you do with music.
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I think you can tell when someone is being dishonest as an actor.
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The trouble with conservatives is that too many of them come to Washington thinking they are going to drain the swamp, only to discover that Washington is a hot tub.
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I was studying communications and acting, and I decided over the summer that I wanted to work on my acting skills and perform in a pageant. I didn't have any other way of practicing, so I entered the Miss Rhode Island pageant. I ended up wearing a dress that was a $20 rental. It was too short, and there was a hole in the back of it.
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The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.
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I am a little shy of any assumption of moral indignation. There is always in it an element of self-satisfaction which makes it awkward to anyone who has a sense of humour.
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If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
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Yeah, I did a cameo in an upcoming movie called Constantine.
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I can sleep anywhere. I'm like an infant.
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That they were going to rebel? Yeah. They were just such rebels anyway, and their characters were rebels, so they just lived it to the hilt.
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For one man who can introduce another to Jesus Christ by the way he lives and by the atmosphere of his life, there are a thousand who can only talk jargon about him.
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Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.
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Salutations
