Eudora Welty Quotes
People give pain, are callous and insensitive, empty and cruel...but place heals the hurt, soothes the outrage, fills the terrible vacuum that these human beings make.
Quotes to Explore
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Think and grow rich.
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I feel like people who know me, my fans, I want them to know I'm just a regular 21-year-old kid who likes movies, who likes to have fun. It lets people see the other side of you and not just the basketball thing.
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Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
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So Liam and movies are obviously big passions, and I read and write.
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People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
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I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.
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Internet governance is an oxymoron. The Internet must govern itself. But you can't play cricket without any rules.
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I think you can say a lot of evil behavior by companies is short-term optimization.
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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
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I don't need to sell tons of records, but I want longevity. I want to make music for the rest of my life.
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Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
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The ideals of liberalism have been divorced from any realities of modern social structure that might serve as the means of their realization. ... The detachment of liberalism from the facts of a going society make it an excellent mask for those who do not, cannot, or will not do what would have to be done to realize its ideals.
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The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory.
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I wanted to see the score! What do you got to do that's so important? You can't join the religious cult with me!
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I pushed against doing a podcast for so long. I'm a very late comer to the podcast game. But you're responsibility as a comedian is to get your viewpoints out into the world, and we have a lot more avenues to do that. So it's a lot more opportunity, but really have to work all the time.
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I go to bars and restaurants, and I sit and I eavesdrop on people and I watch people in shopping centers and, you know, I read the newspapers and I talk to the Trenton cops, and I just get a lot of information that comes in that somehow turns into a book.
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Life that only a few hours before had glowed with enthusiasm and exultation, suddenly paled and sickened.
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It's unrealistic not to be able to indulge.
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I was tall and I had long hair and I didn't look wimpy.
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Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.
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In brief, our genetic heritage is at odds with our genetic future. For the first time in human history, the qualities it takes to survive as a species are compatible with the qualities it takes to love.
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If you've ever had a brush with cancer, you're always thinking a pain might be something serious.
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People give pain, are callous and insensitive, empty and cruel...but place heals the hurt, soothes the outrage, fills the terrible vacuum that these human beings make.
