Wendell Phillips Quotes
Races love to be judged in two ways-by the great men they produce, and by the average merit of the mass of the race.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.
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My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.
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I'm not the most technical producer, so the weird mixes and blown-out sound happen naturally.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
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Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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I've been incredibly lucky. I've worked in two iconic shows, 'Carry On' and 'EastEnders.' If it all ended tomorrow - and it could - I'd just be terribly grateful. I've been fortunate enough to do what I love and get paid for it.
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I'd say mostly I paint hot chicks.
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There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.
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And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.
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My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.
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There's always going to be people who say, 'This ain't country.' But that's fine; that's how it is. Those same people aren't listening to Sam Hunt, aren't listening to FGL. But obviously, a lot of people are.
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I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy. You won't get there by reading 'Now is the time to buy.'
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I love the State Fair. It's an event that really brings the urban and the rural Minnesotans together. Rural people get a chance to mix with the urban folk and see what the cities have to offer, and urban people get to remember where their food comes from and who produces it for them.
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Like every novelist, I fantasise about film. Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from, and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.
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Races love to be judged in two ways-by the great men they produce, and by the average merit of the mass of the race.
