Robert Frost Quotes
Evolution is like walking on a rolling barrel. The walker isn't so much interested in where the barrel is going as he is in keeping on top of it.
Quotes to Explore
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If your aim is to attack the United States, it is hard to imagine a more difficult way of getting here than by posing as a refugee.
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The solution to women's issues can only be achieved in a free and democratic society in which human energy is liberated, the energy of both women and men together. Our civilization is called human civilization and is not attributed only to men or women.
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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When you've been on a programme called 'An Idiot Abroad' job offers aren't exactly flying in.
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I don't do anything political on Sundays.
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I don't weigh. I don't weigh in at all.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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Critics should think about how the opening weekend audience might want to discover some surprises for themselves.
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We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.
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I remember my dreams when I was a junior soloist. 'Oh, I hope I don't end here,' I thought. 'I want to do the ballerina in 'Scotch Symphony.' I don't want to be the little Scotch girl.' And I actually went beyond my wildest dreams. I worked with Balanchine. I had ballets choreographed for me.
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They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.
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My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.
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In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
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If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging bits of dialogue or sentiment, then you're sort of writing a novel, really. But rock lyrics are not really known for their sophistication.
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I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.
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I'm into song-writing; I'm into melodies that break your heart a little bit. That's the thing that got me into music; that's what I look for in music for the most part.
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I would love to do something like 'Beverly Hills Cop'. I'd get to be funny and cool and heroic all in the same breath.
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I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are very powerful and they convey an intention.
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There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face just by walking into a room. It's unbelievable. And if I have that power, who am I to waste it, you know?
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The magic of Disneyland, walking through the tunnel underneath the train station to Main Street, it just transports you to other places and other times.
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Walk some night on a suburban street and pass house after house on both sides of the same street each with the lamplight of the living room, shining golden, and inside the little blue square of the television, each living family riveting its attention on probably one show; nobody talking; silence in the yards; dogs barking at you because you pass on human feet instead of wheels.
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Evolution is like walking on a rolling barrel. The walker isn't so much interested in where the barrel is going as he is in keeping on top of it.
