Melvil Dewey Quotes
Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance.
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The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
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There's a lot of females that hustle, just like men hustle.
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The West hasn't reached its universal state as yet, although its close to it, but it certainly has evolved out of its warring state phase, which it was in for a couple of centuries.
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I do comedy at a lot of colleges, and at the end of those shows, I take time to be a little more real with audiences. I try to inspire them to follow their dreams. When I was that age, it was incredible to hear stuff like that.
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Shun all vice, especially card playing.
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I have no literary fears.
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Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
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I started to realize that comedy is what I really wanted to do, but I didn't want to do stand-up.
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The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee.
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Never let anyone out work you or out hustle you. Ever.
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Seek to be the purple thread in the long white gown.
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I got stopped in front of the bras in Victoria's Secret; I get interrogated in airport bathrooms. I went to South Africa in January to see my family, and even there people would stop me and ask, "Sasha, who's A?" Even my grandma.
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Electricity is doing for the distribution of energy what the railroads have done for the distribution of materials.
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Howard Beale is processed, instant God, and right now it looks like he might just go over bigger than Mary Tyler Moore.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself. When Anne Sexton admonished me, "We are all writing God's poem," I took it to mean there should be no competition between writers because we are all involved in a common project, a common prayer. But to Gore's and Norman's generation, particularly those male writers who served in the second world war, the prizefighter paradigm remains.
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I don't have a greatest achievement. It's something said by other people or journalists when they give you an award, or after some time you've been in the industry.
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Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance.
