Eudora Welty Quotes
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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Everybody gets dressed every day, and whatever you decide to get dressed in that morning is communicating something.
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There's a whole element of human interaction and character interaction that I really enjoy doing.
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Women should wear clothing. Clothing shouldn't wear them.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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Maybe I've lost a little, but I think everyone does over time. People have been writing that I'm getting old every year, and eventually they're going to be right. There's nobody in this game that's doing the same things they once did in the peak years of their career.
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It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more possibility. I think just what's happened so far is already making the opportunities more interesting, even though I'm at the twilight of my career of like 48 years.
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You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.
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I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.
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Along with Senator Lieberman and others, I introduced the Energy Security Bill to use existing technologies with a variety of tax incentives to reduce our dependence on oil.
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The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
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My dad was a firefighter for almost 30 years. My mom worked her way up from a secretary to vice president of her own company. They taught me to work hard for everything and take nothing for granted. That's how I play.
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The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.
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The heart is the best reflective thinker.
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Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.
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Youth has no age.
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As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit.
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Now and forevermore, I'm going to stick up for immigrants, and I'm going to stick up for Hispanic people and their rights. I feel like that's just my job.
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When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.
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I have to be myself.
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I feel like it's a real shame that my generation doesn't make an appearance at the opera.
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I probably listen to Burn more than any of them, because it was so new me, so novel. To see my name on an actual record was such an incredible feeling.
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I have a theory, that there is a terrific link between what is funny and what is scary. I think there is a very close connection between what frightens people and what makes them laugh. Laughter is a kind of nervousness. Animals don't laugh. Smiling is, anthropologists agree, directly linked to the baring of the teeth.
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Any room in our house at any time in the day was there to read in or to be read to.
