Padraic Colum Quotes
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My joke is that three black people watch 'The Daily Show' at any given time. So if I'm watching it, that counts, and there's only two left. It's a silly joke, but you know, different types of comedy reach different cultures.
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Natural gas is a better transportation fuel than gasoline, so if that's the case, it's cheaper, it's cleaner and it's a domestic resource.
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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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The day I leave Paris is the day I go down a level or quit football.
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If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.
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The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
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I lived with my mother all my life until she died, and I don't really think I knew her, because I was always using her as my mother, if you know what I mean.
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The scene of independent cinema is already a large scene in America, and not in a negative way, but it's cluttered. It's very populated with just American films, so the room left for foreign movies is not extremely vast. The American public also does not really read. They don't read subtitles. But we're like that in Canada, too.
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I think in high school and college, you don't really know what your routine is going to be; you're still trying to come up with it.
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We had to leave Australia to become international stars.
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Putin has put Russia on a path to be a world power with global influence.
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The first story I finished was when I was six years old.
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Gaily bedight,A gallant knight,In sunshine and in shadow, Had journeyed long,Singing a song,In search of Eldorado.
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Even when we were still fighting in the bush against the oppressive dictatorships of Idi Amin and Milton Obote, we introduced elections for the committees of the villages under our control.
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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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I'm a fighter by nature and nothing will ever change that.
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The beginning is always today.
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It's true that I have never met any man whom I thought altogether resembled me - but only because my faults are so enormous.
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Tsars and slaves, the intelligent and the obtuse, publicans and pharisees all have an identical legal and moral right to honor the memory of the deceased as they see fit, without regard for anyone else’s opinion and without the fear of hindering one another.
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My father was a deeply committed humanitarian. He was a fighter for social justice. He was spirited in the deepest sense.
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A good poem brims with reflected beauty and even a bracing, beautiful ugliness. At the center of our lives, in the midst of the busyness and the forgetting, is a story that makes sense when everything extraneous has been taken away.
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It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir.
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O woman shapely as a swan.
