Earl Blaik Quotes
The essence of the game is not "fun," but the soul-satisfying awareness that comes from communal work and sacrifice.
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I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.
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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.'
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.
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I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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I never carry a purse. My iPhone is always with me, a credit card, and a piece of mint chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream gum.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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I wear Rick Owens T-shirts to bed. They are like my thermals, since I sleep with the room at near freezing temperatures, like a meat locker.
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Someone's career that I admire would have to be Justin Timberlake's because he started off on Disney and he made this huge film career and huge solo music career. I really respect him as an artist.
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Afghanistan is a land-locked country.
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I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.
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We couldn't pitch the show without having created one, at least one 20 to 25 minute version of 'Broad City.' We wouldn't know how to describe it.
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People say it's a Ponzi scheme, it's a bubble. People really don't want to take it seriously. At some point, that narrative will shift to 'virtual currencies are here to stay.'
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When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.
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There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.
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The wastefulness of indiscriminate plunder impoverishes a country, while it adds nothing to the support of the army; policy, as well as humanity to the inhabitants, dictates that all levies should be made according to established rules, and under the charge of discreet and competent officers.
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There's a country spread out in the sky, a credulous carpet of rainbows and crepuscular plants: I move toward it just a bit haggardly, trampling a gravedigger's rubble still moist from the spade to dream in a bedlam of vegetables.
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I don't think it's any mystery that any Christians can be some of the most judgmental people on the planet.
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The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.
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The essence of the game is not "fun," but the soul-satisfying awareness that comes from communal work and sacrifice.
