Roy Blount, Jr. Quotes
Any given generation gives the next generation advice that the given generation should have been given by the previous generation but now it's too late.
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The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.
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I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.
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My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.
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Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.
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When the phonies are expelled from their leadership roles and the Republican Party backs a moderate gubernatorial candidate acceptable to the rank and file with proper financing and the intestinal fortitude to fight the good fight, the rank and file will rejoin the fold.
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For once I want to have a relationship outside the public eye.
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I did go through a phase where I played videogames quite often, but I haven't in a few years.
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From a spinner's perspective, in India it was never easy for me to judge where to stand: how far forward, how far back, because on Indian wickets the ball does not carry as much as abroad. That is true of slip fielding in general. I wouldn't say only for spinner – even for a fast bowler, that holds true.
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I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it.
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I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason - to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.
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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.
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I never had high expectations going into Hollywood. I went there just to work.
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At the end of the day, tech workers are not robots: they feel, they think, they have values.
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We are the storytelling animal.
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A freewheeling mind can conceive a virtually infinite number of sequences, but just how that mind picks out and stores those that may perhaps be used later to deal with a given tension, a given situation, is far beyond my understanding.
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I know that a ridiculous number of classic serials have been commissioned, and that reviews show a reaction against them. The critics seem fed up.
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It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach.
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The smell of good advice always makes Rabbit want to run the other way.
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It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.
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I was thinking of my father's family. I can find their graves, but not that much about them. They didn't do anything notable enough to be in the records of newspapers.
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Any given generation gives the next generation advice that the given generation should have been given by the previous generation but now it's too late.
