Eudora Welty Quotes
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There's a lot to be said for loafing if you know how to do it gracefully.
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This office is not going to make that decision about rescheduling this game.
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No one has done what Saddam Hussein has done, or is thinking of doing. He is producing weapons of mass destruction, and he is qualitatively and quantitatively different from other dictators.
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Everything comes to an end. A good bottle of wine, a summer’s day, a long-running sitcom, one’s life, and eventually our species. The question for many of us is not that everything will come to an end but when. And can we do anything vaguely useful until it does?
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The purpose behind terrorism is to instill fear in people - the fear that electrical power, for instance, will be taken away or the transportation system will be taken down.
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Job tip: If you were the employer, what kind of person would you most desire as an employee? Be that person.
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What we went to World War II for, at least in my mind, was not getting taken care of. It was supposed to be a brave new world, but we were getting back into the old ruts, and we were in a cold war with Russia.
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Ideology makes people stupid.
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God is discovered entirely through creation - the brilliance of a sunset, the powerful roar of a waterfall, the symphony of sounds you hear in the heart of the forest, or the vastness of space and its countless stars. God is the mastermind behind all matter - every earth shattering scientific discovery and mystery that is yet to be unraveled was dreamed and enacted by God.
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The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
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I deserve respect for the things I did not do.
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In Jamaica, we eradicated polio many years ago, but there are a lot of kids suffering in Africa still.
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Any nitwit can understand computers, and many do.
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Fred Astaire told me things I will never forget. Gene Kelly also said he liked my dancing. It was a fantastic experience because I felt I had been inducted into an informal fraternity of dancers, and I felt so honored because these were the people I most admired in the world.
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This element of surprise or mystery the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called is of great importance in a plot.
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The characters write the plot. Their natures do.
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The idea that every time you do a film you're supposed to be tortured confuses me. I mean, guys who say "Oh, it's really tough, my character is really suffering" - come on. For us, even in the rotten ones, we've had a good time. I don't think you have to suffer.
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History is philosophy teaching by experience.
