Ryan North Quotes
This is why it's hard to talk about winning awards. You can't do it without sounding like a tool.
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I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.
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To supply people for ages in camps makes no sense... you have to rebuild that cabana that they rent out to tourists on the weekend. They need help getting their fields repaired and their boats repaired.
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Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the central nervous system, brought about in my case by a viral assault on brain tissue. When the assault wiped out certain intellectual processes, it also affected emotional processes.
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My dad grew up wrestling. He knew Ken Shamrock, and I didn't know who he was at the time. So, he found out that Shamrock was in a gym in Reno, and he wanted me to go try a class with him. I tried it and fell in love the first day. Ken told me that I had potential in this sport, and he's the reason I kept at it.
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That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.
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In 2013, a great national coalition came together to compel Congress to deny Barack Obama authority to take us to war in Syria.
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When you hear 'Truth of Touch,' I believe you recognize that it is me; however it's not the typical Yanni album.
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He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.
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I had a diary full of lyrics and whatnot and a little voice recorder of guitar riffs.
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You want to believe that there's one relationship in life that's beyond betrayal. A relationship that's beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn't.
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It's hard to see someone with a 'perfect' body and be like, 'Why can't I be like her?' But that person was born to be who she is, and you're born to be who you are.
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Philosophy and theology have so much to tell us about God, but people today want to experience God. There is a difference between eating dinner and merely reading the menu.
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In too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fear. Through initiatives like My Brother's Keeper, I'm personally committed to changing both perception and reality.
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This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: 'Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the Earth.'
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The conformist understands that the reason of his desperate look for conformism is that he realises he is different and that he never accepted his difference.
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I knew I didn't look like my sisters and I didn't have those shapes, but I didn't think that was wrong.
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In my sport, we're measured in millimeters and fractions of millimeters.
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What appeals about the '70s is the celebration of the female form, the lack of constriction.
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Every fight is a different experience.
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It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen; by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the very first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different, that their voice could be that difference.
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Diligence is the mother of good luck.
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The story of America is necessarily one of progress because if it's not than it's a stale story where we have not risen above Klansmen.
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This is why it's hard to talk about winning awards. You can't do it without sounding like a tool.
