Harvey Penick Quotes
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We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.
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Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.
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Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career.
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You will never be indecisive if you know your purpose.
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I believe the President was enormously effective in small groups, small groups being anything under a hundred, where you could really communicate.
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We're not perfect, we're not clean cut. We're just trying to be ourselves.
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All day I have been tossed and whirled in a preposterous happiness; was it an elf in the blood? Or a bird in the brain? Or even part of the cloudily crested, fifty-league-long, loud, uplifted wave of a journeying angels transit over and through my heart?
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Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.
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There has been plenty to criticize about President Obama’s handling of the economy. Yet the overriding story of the past few years is not Mr. Obama’s mistakes but the scorched-earth opposition of Republicans, who have done everything they can to get in his way - and who now, having blocked the president’s policies, hope to win the White House by claiming that his policies have failed.
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Question every assumption and go towards the problem, like the way they flew to the moon. We should have more moon shots and flights to the moon in areas of societal importance.
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Without grace there is no hope, but with it there is no shortage.
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I was brought up to believe that Scotch whisky would need a tax preference to survive in competition with Kentucky bourbon.
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It's an unfortunate way to end the season. We had a rough 10-day stretch here to end it. But such is life. We move on from here.
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In my view, madness is a place. You go. You come back. And I think we all take turns being the mental patient. Without a touch of crazy, literature can be a desolate place. In the current climate of careful speech, even fearful speech, smoke-free film scripts, thought-free songs, and child-proof locks on American minds, the oft-repeated lament of the arts is "Where have all those wonderful madmen gone?"
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I have no fancy living at all. Well, I have a house in Sun Valley. Five acres in the woods. I guess that's fancy.
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Yes, I am going into the woods; I am going into the unity of all things.
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The woods are full of long drivers.
