Sinclair Lewis (Harry Sinclair Lewis) Quotes
When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism.
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I'm really enjoying living in Los Angeles. It's a great city to live in. I'm living a very suburban domesticated lifestyle out there - a two bedroomed little bungalow with two cars, and we're just driving around, going to meetings here and there - it's lovely!
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I really value words. I really try to illustrate and let people draw their own conclusions.
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I often felt that I didn't train and race enough team sprint to get it right. You need to know that you've got a place to have that continuity of results. Am I in? Am I out of this one? That's tough.
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The beauty about living in Atlanta is that there aren't too many paparazzi here; you can just relax. And that really works for me and my children.
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I usually have eight to 10 meetings a day and travel 150 days a year..._It sounds crazy, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
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Respect for women was a very important part of my upbringing.
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I was surrounded by sisters. My childhood was all women.
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I love books.
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All I ever wanted to do was play competitive golf against the best players in the world.
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I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.
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Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.
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It's good to go with your gut instincts in life. You just should. Even if it doesn't work out, something good will come out of it.
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I've always deplored bad heterosexual values that dictate the minute a marriage is over the former partners no longer speak to each other; only straights could be so cruel and inhuman as to reject totally the person with whom they've shared their life for 20 or 30 years.
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Market mechanisms are totally irrelevant when resources are used to serve a larger purpose, especially for the underserved, unserved, or marginalised.
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I've grown up with a piano in the house, and that's where I started to be able to learn things by ear. Guitar kind of happened, and I was using it just for writing at first. Then, I was writing so much that I began to realise that I knew how to play, and that's when I started getting nerdy about it.
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Everybody can make a choice to be more positive. It's about who you hang around and what you choose to watch on TV. What environment you put yourself in. It's easy to get a negative internal dialogue. You have to be aware of what's playing in your mind.
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I've made so many changes to my records because of the way the audience has reacted at the various festivals I've played - I've taken tracks back into the studio, stripped them bare, and built them back up again to create something entirely different.
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I think Les Moonves is the most highly overrated person in television.
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Prayer endows us with the power to draw near to our Eternal Father.
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I wanna go south and get some more. Hey, they say that a stitch in time saves nine, they say I better stop or I'll go blind.
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You can cut the ties that bind but not without losing a part of yourself. You can walk away and hide from the people who made you, but you'll always hear them calling your name.
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The United States is far too efficient. We've lost the ceremony of eating. People don't eat at home and cook meals at home.
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I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it.
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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism.
