Baden Powell Quotes
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My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.
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I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.
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I was the girl that didn't go to prom or my graduation because I was too busy working with producers and making music.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
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You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
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I used homeopathy, acupuncture, yoga and meditation in conjunction with my chemotherapy to help me get stronger again after the cancer. I also chanted with Buddhist friends and prayed with Christian friends. I covered all my bases.
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Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.
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The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.
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Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
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I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant.
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Essentially what photography is is life lit up.
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I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.
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Who is ready to settle for five minutes when three hours does nicely?
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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
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I moved to L.A. and really didn't dig living there until I found places like Koreatown and Little Tokyo. I really like hanging out in the grocery stores and restaurants.
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I can put two and two together, you know. Do not think you are dealing with a man who has lost his grapes.
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The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.
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To one extent or another, then, you learn to constantly monitor your behavior, so that it conforms to the established criteria set up for sane or rational experience. You are social creatures, as the animals are. Despite many of your cherished, erroneous beliefs, your nations exist as the result of cooperation, not competition, as do all social groupings.
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Where is there a boy to whom the call of the wild and the open road does not appeal?
