Eudora Welty Quotes
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Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.
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People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.
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A government must always be prepared for the unexpected.
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I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.
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I decided to start acting in my mid-twenties. I studied pre-med, and I have a bachelor's degree in Biology, so when I decided to pursue a different career, I got a lot of, 'What on earth are you doing?' But, I gave myself a year and thought, 'You know what, I'm going to just beat the odds.'
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If your heart is in love, you can do anything.
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Wherever I go, people recognize me, call my name, cheer me.
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The analysis of the thing is not the thing itself.
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If I don't go to the gym for a week, I just get thinner and thinner.
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If someone comes up to me, 90 percent of the time it's about Office Space.
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We must have the courage to confront dreadful views even in the people we love the most. But that's difficult to do when we cast large segments of our fellow citizens into a basket to be condemned and disparaged, judging them even as we ignore that many of their deplorable traits exist in us, too.
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I've always been captivated by the Voynich Manuscript - the mysterious, 15th-century encrypted codex that still baffles cryptologists, linguists, and historians.
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Sometimes, violent details have been eliminated from fairy tales simply because they were deemed too graphic. So one does not, at the end of Disney's version of 'Cinderella,' see the stepsisters' eyes get pecked and pecked by doves, because Disney wanted to market the story for wholesome family viewing.
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Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.
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Social cognitive theory rejects the dichotomous conception of self as agent and self as object. Acting on the environment and acting on oneself entail shifting the perspective of the same agent rather than reifying different selves regulating each other or transforming the self from agent to object.
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People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall.
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The Night World isn't a place. It's all around us. The creatures of Night World are beautiful and deadly and irresitable to humans. Your best friend could be one-so could your crush.
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I never planned on being a live performer. My whole forte was about being in the studio, producing, playing the piano on recording sessions. I was all about the studio.
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Finally I am becoming stupider no more.
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Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.
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I do write fiction, and I find it more difficult, but also more liberating. On the one hand, you can make up the story, but you have to make up the story.
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That faith which is required of us is then perfect when it produces in us a fiduciary assent to whatever the Gospel has revealed.
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There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer.
