Zachary Macaulay Quotes
It is difficult to conceive any situation more painful than to watch the lingering agony of an exhausted country, to tend it during the alternate fits of stupefaction and raving which precede its dissolution, and to see the symptoms of vitality disappear one by one, till nothing is left but coldness, darkness, and corruption.
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All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.
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There are as many ways to help another human being as there are people in need of help. For some, the urgent need is as basic as food and water. For others, it is an opportunity to develop a talent, realize an idea, and reach one's full potential.
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.
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'Die Antwoord' just has a nice ring to it.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
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I don't know where Hank Aaron will break Ruth's record but I can tell you one thing - ten years from the day he hits it three million people will say they were there.
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To say that Jimmy Carter does not understand politics or is not a good politician denies the phenomenon by which he got to the White House. He is without question the best politician, when he's working at it, of anybody I have ever seen.
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.
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It's all about risk-taking when you're making an album. Don't be scared to do weird things sometimes.
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I've been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.
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I love tennis, but I just don't like grass.
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The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?
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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
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I get real excited when I hear my shows on the radio.
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Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were really there and not a spirit just floating around.
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Being an insomniac only slows me down. I try not to write at night, as I'm concerned that this will affect the quality.
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Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.
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Far, far away, there is a beautiful Country which no human eye has ever seen in waking hours. Under the Sunset it lies, where the distant horizon bounds the day, and where the clouds, splendid with light and colour, give a promise of the glory and beauty which encompass it. Sometimes it is given to us to see it in dreams.
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It is difficult to conceive any situation more painful than to watch the lingering agony of an exhausted country, to tend it during the alternate fits of stupefaction and raving which precede its dissolution, and to see the symptoms of vitality disappear one by one, till nothing is left but coldness, darkness, and corruption.
