Homer Quotes
Generations of men are like the leaves. In winter, winds blow them down to earth, but then, when spring season comes again, the budding wood grows more. And so with men: one generation grows, another dies away.
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When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.
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I believe that if you eat well, you work even better.
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Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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There was no Groundlings or Upright Citizens Brigade where I was from. Looking back on it, I was trying to do sketch comedy in my stand-up, which is still kind of what I am doing now. To go full-circle here, it's kind of like one-man sketch.
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I used to eat a whole chicken, every day, for lunch. I did that for four years. But it got tiring - go to the store, buy it, eat it. It's a mess.
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I do think it's possible to change for the better.
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Imagine if I'd said, 'I have to be the best actress - I want that and nothing else.' I never would have directed. I never would have produced. I never would have done a beauty line. I would have just worried about getting a job or been frustrated that I wasn't getting the job that I wanted. I was ready to be a businesswoman.
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I guess what I like is mostly country & western or else stuff that has a real blues feel to it.
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Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman.
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It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit.
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I walked into a gunfight with a knife to kill you, and cut you so fast when your blood spilled it was still blue.
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One can insult an honest man or an honest woman, but to tell a thief that he is a thief is merely la constation d'un fait The establishing of a fact.
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At 83 Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's.
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Baby why'd you leave me, why'd you have to go; I was counting on forever, now I'll never know.
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I, along with something like 5 million other people, insure to enable me to go into hospital on the day I want; at the time I want, and with a doctor I want.
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I did movie star impressions as a kid in high school. Somehow they just got out of hand.
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I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin which have helped to make anthropology what it is at the present time.
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Microsoft first entered the living room with Ultimate TV way back in 2000 - a year before Apple's first iPod was announced. Ultimate TV offered consumers a DVR and supporting online services, including 14 days of programming and the ability to record 35 hours of programming. Microsoft's reach was then thwarted when Echostar acquired DIRECTV.
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Your words are teeth. And they eat me alive. Feed on my corpse instead.
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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God??
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The great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and ends with health, and that happiness begins and ends with a full stomach and the power to enjoy physical pleasures, even of the finer kind.
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Generations of men are like the leaves. In winter, winds blow them down to earth, but then, when spring season comes again, the budding wood grows more. And so with men: one generation grows, another dies away.
