H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Quotes
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The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
Walter Savage Landor
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As historians, we spend days in archives, gazing at account books. We train would-be historians in the arts of deciphering letters and documents, early Latin, scribal handwriting, medieval French.
Kate Williams
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
Ed Harris
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A lot of people don't get second chances.
Tamar Braxton
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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
Victor Hugo
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
Edgar Allan Poe
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The BAFTAs give the British point of view, and the Oscars give the American point of view, but the truth is we're all working in an international industry.
Ian Mckellen
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Every story makes a promise to the reader. Actually, two promises, one emotional and one intellectual, since the function of stories is to make us both feel and think.
Nancy Kress
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But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it.
Daley Thompson
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You can be funny and say what you mean; these ideas are not mutually exclusive. Some of the best jokes came from people who meant it. See: Pryor, Bruce, Carlin, etc.
Hari Kondabolu
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I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
Sam Walton
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At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.
Walter Pater