Ernie Pyle Quotes
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.
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This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal.
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When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.
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I love festivals in that people seem to let their hair down more. I love that people run from stage to stage. I love going as a performer because you get to see band that you wouldn't necessarily go see.
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Have the pride of the brown girl and know that you'll figure out your own beauty in time.
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I speak for all Malaysians in expressing my admiration for the Queen and the grace, poise and selflessness with which she has carried out her duties during her long reign. She represents the very best of British traits: dignity, resilience and hard work.
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Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.
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Men lie all the time.
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Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.
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At first flash of Eden, We race down to the sea. Standing there on Freedom's shore. Waiting for the sun...
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Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,And sinks into my throat her tiger’s tooth,Stealing my breath of life, I will confessI love this cultured hell that tests my youth!
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Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?
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My wife, Sharon, and I started with nothing when we got married. I was driving a 1902 Pinto and eating off a card table.
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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!
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My eventual goal is to win a championship. And before I retire, I just want to win a championship. That's it.
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Lawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country.
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[T]hese tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans are also the tax cuts that are least likely to promote growth.
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I've often wished when I started a book I knew what was going to happen. I talked to writers who write 80-page outlines, and I'm just in awe of that.
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You tell your kids that no matter what, you set your goals and you go for them. Whatever it is you achieve, never give up. You want your kids to have that good attitude, the confidence, and the will power to believe in themselves.
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Damn everything but the circus! ...damn everything that is grim, dull, motionless, unrisking, inward turning, damn everything that won't get into the circle, that won't enjoy. That won't throw it's heart into the tension, surprise, fear and delight of the circus, the round world, the full existence.
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Some day I'd like to cover a war in a country as ugly as war itself.
