Oenomaus Quotes
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I kind of think too much, I try do too many things at once.
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I'm quite claustrophobic, and I don't like everyone crowding around and shouting the same questions.
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Anyone who criticises me for talking about fair trade is a few pebbles short of a beach. Because everyone should care about it, just like everyone should care about the environment, because we all live here.
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I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.
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I'm embracing many different things, but it's all feel-good.
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Mothers are not simply models of femininity to their daughters but also examples of how a woman reacts to a man. Daughters learn about fathers, and men, not only by being with Dad but also by observing their parent's marital relationship-- or its unraveling.
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When I cruise around, I can't help but study people's faces and emotions and wonder why they're feeling the way they are.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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The cause of Freedom and the cause of Peace are bound together.
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Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me.
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A moral society will not set standards for becoming a parent, but it will establish irreducible minimums for maintaining that sacred status.
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To become a lawyer you must discard your ethics and become an eloquent devil that views justice as god.
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Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing.
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There has been a vast output of critical studies in contemporary poetry, some of them first rate, but I do not think that , as a rule, a poet should read them.
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It's a little cheeky; growing up in Santa Fe was kind of a weird experience, because it's such a touristy town. So sometimes it feels a little like you're in a town that's just on display. You walk around downtown and all the shops are galleries or high end boutiques, so it can feel like you don't belong there even though you are from there.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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A gladiator's first distraction is his last.
