E. Y. Harburg Quotes
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I would love to be a singer if I had the talent for it. I'd love to be a graphic designer if I had the talent for it. Those are things I've always just admired - the work of other artists.
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.
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If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.
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I don't get hung up a lot on angst.
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My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
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I don't like to make a big splash anyway.
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If you've got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You've got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet.
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I've eaten ice cream from all over the world, but until you've tasted Graham's from Geneva, Illinois, you haven't had ice cream at all.
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A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
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I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them.
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I can do whatever I want.
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I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
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I don't think that women need to smell interesting.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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The divine wisdom which requires a division of labor has sown different abilities and tendencies in human nature and has enabled human beings to carry out the duty of establishing sciences and developing technology. The fulfillment of this duty is obligatory upon humanity as a whole, though not on every individual.
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'Radioactive' is the fall out of my life's inspirations, a testament to my ability to survive it all and to tell the story.
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Always strive to find out what to do by thinking, without asking anybody. If you continually do this, you will soon act like a grown-up woman. For want of doing this, a very great number of grown-up people act like children.
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I got a problem, can you relate? I got a woman calling love hate.
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When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.
