Ethan Bennett Farnum Quotes
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At the very end, what is going to happen is that immigration will be reduced considerably. And how can we get to that stage? By agreements on sectors.
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I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
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I don't think there is much American music.
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When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.
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I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.
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The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
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To keep your job, you fire others or bench them or trade them. You have to do the thinking for 25 guys, and you can't be too close to any of them.
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The people that really were important, that mattered, had a great foundation. I had no training. I had to learn while doing, and it was really difficult.
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Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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I have to be honest - I don't love guns.
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Sure, if you're a well to do family, you always have the option of sending your children to private schools where teachers spend less time disciplining kids and more time teaching them. However, this option is beyond the reach of most households. And this is what makes school vouchers such a promising solution for lower and middle income families.
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Technically a memoir, 'The Woman Warrior' becomes almost magical through its inclusion of folk tales, dreams, and revisions.
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I need a vacation anyway. They fight me too much. I'm not going to be the one to back out of these fights.
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When I was working my way up, it seemed to me that only Westerns and 'Star Treks' or sci-fi movies could afford to get away with presenting the problems – like prejudice and desegregation, for instance – that we face in our everyday lives.
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Paul Krugman is a danger to society!
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The golf ball has no sense at all, which is why it has to be given stern lectures constantly, especially during the act of putting.
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Find the best in everybody. … you might have to wait a long time, sometimes years, but people will show you their good side. Just keep waiting no matter how long it takes. No one is all evil. Everybody has a good side, just keep waiting, it will come out.
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The Administration's policy on women is often hard to see because it is written in the font size of pharmaceutical ads.
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Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.
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Given what I do to my characters, I'm not sure I'd want to meet any of them.
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Obama is the splendid fruit of a meritocracy.
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all the gods are the same unknowable mystery, just as each face of a jewel strikes light in a different direction
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The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly.
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Loyalty expanded is not loyalty betrayed!
