Robert Wilson Lynd Quotes
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My health is fine.
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I can't predict the future. All I know is that if we continue down the path we're on, the Affordable Care Act will implode on itself. People will be without insurance.
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Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available.
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Son, give 'em a good show, and always travel first class.
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It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
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No matter who the prime minister is, incremental changes take place. The economy moves on.
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The whole voiceover world is new and different to me and quite challenging.
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I'd see an old person on the street and start crying. I couldn't understand how people could cope, knowing they only had so long left. It would be like dominoes and then the last one fell and I'm a little heap on the floor. Doctors put me on anti-depressants for a couple of years.
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I'm attracted to subjects who overcome tremendous suffering and learn to cope emotionally with it.
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'SNL' is part of my history. I got on the show as a kid. That's the show I got known from.
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If a writer is always trying to keep a narrator emitting a tone of complete knowingness, it can become false.
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I play in a band, I write songs, I sing, you know, perform on stage.
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Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
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I grew, day by day, more moody, more irritable, more regardless of the feelings of others. I suffered myself to use intemperate language to my wife. At length, I even offered her personal violence.
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The night is beautiful, So are the faces of my people.
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The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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How came the bodies of animals to be contrived with so much art, and for what ends were their several parts? Was the eye contrived without skill in Opticks, and the ear without knowledge of sounds?...and these things being rightly dispatch’d, does it not appear from phænomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent...?
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If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.
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In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be, but now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses. And it is impossible to find anyone who will hew a dead ox or pig. I can still remember as a boy the rejoicings over the closing of the last slaughterhouse.
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Scientific physiology has the task of determining the functions of the animal body and deriving them as a necessary consequence from its elementary conditions.
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A cat is only technically an animal, being divine.
