Eugene V. Debs Quotes
The American people can have anything they want; the trouble is, they don't know what they want.
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You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.
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Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.
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I think everybody wants to redeem themselves after they've done something that might be considered negative. I don't think anyone wants to go to the grave negative.
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Our censorship has sort of gotten a little too far. Too much censorship is just as bad as having none at all. Children need to be exposed to things, because if they don't see it, eventually, it's not like it's not going to happen, but it's just that there needs to be a balance.
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I feel like, sometimes, people, because of the amount of media, because of the amount of attention, people seem to think I have to do things. Like, I have to win right now! But I don't feel like that.
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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
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If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.
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The only difference between a good writer who publishes a book and a good writer who doesn't is that the writer who publishes actually finished her book.
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The first presidential election I really paid attention to was in 1988 when George H. W. Bush ran against Michael Dukakis.
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Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years time, and work me back, so we can figure out the synergies and the connections between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. No Israeli has ever been able to answer that question.
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If we go to Chihuahua we must be considered as prisoners of war?
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I had people at Perrysburg High School in my life in Perrysburg who believed in me and told me I could do anything I wanted too, and I foolishly believed them.
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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
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We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
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The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.
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Making your first feature film is actually impossible.
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Hebrew is my first language, so it's really the most personal and the most simple. When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
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I exercise about 40 minutes a day, and I'll run one day and do circuit training the next day. I live in an area where there are brilliant hills and mountains, so I get a good hill run with my dog. At home, I'll do the circuit training with old weights, along with pull-ups in the trees and that sort of stuff.
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I'm confident as a supporter of same sex marriage, I'm confident that there'll be a yes vote in that plebiscite, and that the parliament will then move very swiftly to implement the will of the people.
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I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.
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That the caste system must be abolished if the Hindu society is to be reconstructed on the basis of equality, goes without saying. Untouchability has its roots in the caste system. They cannot expect the Brahmins to rise in revolt against the caste system. Also we cannot rely upon the non-Brahmins and ask them to fight our battle.
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The American people can have anything they want; the trouble is, they don't know what they want.
