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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Basically, the myth is that America has been founded on the free market; the government has done very little; it has thrived under free trade. But actually, if you look at the history, this is actually the country that has succeeded most with protectionist policies.
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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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I get around nature. I have a vegetable garden, and I enjoy being outside. I do work quite a bit around the house.
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I was the chairman of the House Budget Committee and one of the chief architects the last time we balanced a budget, and it was the first time we had done it since man walked on the moon. We had a $5 trillion surplus and we cut taxes.
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Of course I want to have a family, but there's a right time for everything. When my time comes, it will happen.
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I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.
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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.
