Steven Millhauser Quotes
I saw that I was in danger of becoming ordinary, and I understood that from now on I would have to be vigilant.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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In Europe, we will work towards having a common stance, while in France, we will strengthen our protection for asylum seekers whose lives are in danger because of their sexual orientation.
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I am an ordinary person.
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The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.
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I am a danger to myself if I get angry.
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Lynch is an ordinary, smalltown guy and he just sees strange things in people.
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To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.
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Most activism is brought about by us ordinary people.
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We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do.
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The greatest danger in art is too much knowledge.
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You can tell someone you love them first. You can try to speak only the truth for a whole week. You can jump out of an airplane or spend Christmas Day all by your lonesome. You can help people who need help and fight real bad guys. You can dance fast or take an improv class or do one of those Ironman things… Adventure and danger can be good for your heart and soul.
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When a house is on fire and you know that there are people in it, it is a sin to straighten pictures in that house. When the world about you is in great danger, works that are in themselves not sinful can be quite wrong.
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But we have received a sign, Edith - a mysterious sign. A miracle has happened on this farm... in the middle of the web there were the words 'Some Pig'... we have no ordinary pig." "Well", said Mrs. Zuckerman, "it seems to me you're a little off. It seems to me we have no ordinary spider.
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The petition of an empty hand is dangerous.
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The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
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In every sort of danger there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever.
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This, for instance, is what Egon Bahr said on June 26, 1990: "If we do not now undertake clear steps to prevent a division of Europe, this will lead to Russia's isolation."Bahr, a wise man, had a very concrete suggestion as to how this danger could be averted.
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There are two things a real man likes - danger and play; and he likes woman because she is the most dangerous of play things.
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I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.
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Most distracting of all, though, was not the threat of danger but the allure of beauty.
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By the time I started doing TV and film, I was in my forties, so I wasn't going to do the young up-and-comer.
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I saw that I was in danger of becoming ordinary, and I understood that from now on I would have to be vigilant.
