Eugene Field Quotes
I never lost a little fish - Yes, I'm free to say. It always was the biggest fish I caught, that got away.
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I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
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I'd like to work with Bjork if I could get in the studio with her. We could probably travel to a different planet, you know what I'm saying?
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Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.
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Both my wife and I went to Harvard, and it's incredibly exciting that our son and daughter are going there and have the chance to experience it. There are many awesome opportunities at Harvard. That's one of its greatest frustrations - not having enough time to take the classes you want to take.
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I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.
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You don't have to do anything in the movies. You just sit there. Well, that's not entirely true. You do less.
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It is incredibly important to set goals for your business, as if you have no direction for your business, your online business will be a failure.
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I love Canada.
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I get recognized all the time, but not as Haley Bennett.
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I want to walk the red carpet at the Oscars. I am in awe of the ceremony, and winning an Oscar would be the most magical moment of my life. I want to make that speech and hold that trophy and say, 'This is for you, India.' That's the line I have rehearsed for God knows how long. But that has to be for a Hindi language film.
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And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
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Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.
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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
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The shadow of crisis has passed, and the State of the Union is strong.
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I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, 'Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire a stock of knowledge; for when years come upon you, you will find that poring upon books will be but an irksome task.'
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Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.
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I grow gnomic. It is the last phase.
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If there's no place in the universe for a man to resist the thieves of freedom and still be called a good man, then I don't think there is any good or evil in the universe.
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'My physics teacher used to say Diogenes shouldn’t have wasted his time looking for an honest man,' Shirl said, 'he should have been looking for somebody who thought for himself.'
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Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet.
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I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.
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I'm a human, and I'm multidimensional. If I was the perfect form of anything, I'd be boring. If I was a free spirit all the time, I would be boring; I would lack depth. If I was dark and enigmatic all the time, then I would lack relatability.
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I never lost a little fish - Yes, I'm free to say. It always was the biggest fish I caught, that got away.
