C. Douglas Payne Quotes
Consider, if you will, the morning boner. What a metaphor of hope and renewal! How can anyone give way to despair when one’s groin greets each day with such a gala spectacle of physical optimism?
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I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.
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I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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I watch Jay. I watch 'Letterman'. I flip back and forth between 'Conan' and 'Letterman', especially the top of the show for those guys.
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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I don't set out to win awards. I don't think any musician does, but when you receive an award, it's an affirmation: it means that people appreciate what you do. Every award I have received is a confirmation of something I have done, and that motivates me to push a little harder.
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Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
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I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.
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Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.
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I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.
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I'm somewhat of a perfectionist, I think, and I strive for perfection.
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Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
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Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you beautiful.
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It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.
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A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.
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My whole back's tattooed. I just wanted a twist. I was always in punk bands when I was little... I think that's where the tie comes from.
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A doubtful balance is made between truth and pleasure, and... the knowledge of one and the feeling of the other stir up a combat the success of which is very uncertain, since, in order to judge of it, it would be necessary to know all that passes in the innermost spirit of the man, of which man himself is scarcely ever conscious.
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At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That's the only way to defeat terrorism.
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I grew up in a working-class neighborhood, so there was always a sense of struggle, but we had hope.
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Some people do not eat cow meat. I do so, provided it's tender.
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Consider, if you will, the morning boner. What a metaphor of hope and renewal! How can anyone give way to despair when one’s groin greets each day with such a gala spectacle of physical optimism?
