Roy Blount, Jr. Quotes
People don't necessarily want or need to be done unto as you would have them do unto you. They want to be done unto as they want to be done unto.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.
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In times of crisis, the incumbent suffers. And the bigger the crisis, the greater the punishment inflicted on those in power unless they do something that makes a change.
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The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.
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I started singing very early. I was six or seven years old, and I was singing along to TV commercials and figuring out, 'Oh, hey, I can sing in tune. This is really cool.' But the songwriting thing came much much later, when I was 19 years old.
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It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.
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It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.
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The one sound I think of when I think about dreaming is the harp glissando, which is this really atmospheric run up and down the scale that's really dreamy.
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Customers are using BetterWorks in a number of creative ways to reward and incentivize employees.
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Documentaries are a powerful and effective way of bridging the gap between worlds, breaking through to new audiences that wouldn't otherwise be engaged - in essence, not preaching to the choir.
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Sometimes you want a Part Two in your life.
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The poet is a brother speaking to a brother of 'a moment of their other lives' - a moment that had been buried beneath the dust of the busy world.
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I am waiting for something to go wrong I am waiting for familiar resolve
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The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has long been considered as one of the primary elements of the composition.
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I've always been able to just concoct a melody quite easily - it's just kind of instinct, really. You've got to channel your subconscious.
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I'm pretty professional. I'm very aware when I'm not playing well and what I need to improve. I'm pretty motivated to fix things. There are guys out there who are not realistic; they don't like to take blame for certain things they don't do well. That's the nature of doubles sometimes: it's easy to find faults in your partner.
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Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
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I am the last guy that wants to quit making music.
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To establish what is true is very difficult. Frequently it is easier to establish what is false. And, passing through the false, it's possible to understand something about truth.
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People don't necessarily want or need to be done unto as you would have them do unto you. They want to be done unto as they want to be done unto.
