Roy Blount, Jr. Quotes
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Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.
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Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.
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If you say you want to automate cars and save people's lives, the skills you need for that aren't taught in any particular discipline. I know - I was interested in working on automating cars when I was a Ph.D. student in 1995.
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Does one ever know oneself why one laughs?
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I had a conversation here today with someone asked, ‘Well, what about Pence? If you are able to impeach, Pence will be worse. Well, I said, ‘Look, one at a time. You knock one down, and we’ll be ready for Pence. We’ll get him, too.'
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I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
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It is one of the truly unique venues in America.
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Once when I was lost I asked a policeman to help me find my parents. I said to him, 'Do you think we'll ever find them?' He answered, 'I don't know, kid. There are so many places they can hide.
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Perhaps there were a few million dollars that might have been stolen in the process. But how many millions of dollars have we saved because we have re-established the stability of Canada by keeping it a united country?
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When we ask God to 'bring an end to our enemies,' we should be thinking about Iran, those evil ones who threaten Israel.
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Who shall ever tell how much an unmerited disfavor crushes a shy person? Who can ever depict the misfortunes of timidity?
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When I was younger, I never wanted to rehearse because I thought that someone would figure out I don't know what I'm doing.
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Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.
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But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.
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Democracy is not simply a question of structures. It is a state of mind. It is an activity.
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The operations of the human mind are also controlled by words of power, formulas that become a focus of mental activity.
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I like weeding, but I tend to think of it as a solitary activity.
