Northrop Frye Quotes
The traveler from Europe edges into it like a tiny Jonah entering an inconceivably large whale, slipping past the straits of Belle Isle into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where five Canadian provinces surround him, for the most part invisible... to enter Canada is a matter of being silently swallowed by an alien continent.
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I was a tomboy.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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Sadly, for those who are busy sawing off their feet to escape the trap of cliches, every story is chock full of them and sometimes depends on an especially hoary one.
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I believe, whatever God does, he does it for the good. I always try to look at life like that.
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I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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I'm so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain't affecting my life at all.
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Any reaction is better than none.
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I'm still very much in the apprentice stage of writing. I read somewhere that you need to write a million words before you know what you're doing - so I'm headed that way, but I'm nowhere near there.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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We are today, in this country, convulsed by the situation in Iraq. It is an extraordinary crisis. It is taxing our men and women in uniform, and it is certainly taxing our resolve.
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The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.
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I believe that a politician needs to be with people.
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A city, far from being a cluster of buildings, is actually a sequence of spaces enclosed and defined by buildings.
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The First Amendment only says 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.' It can disrespect all it wants.
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I don't like expeditions where it is a total lottery whether you live or die. You have to keep those sort of good luck cards for rare occasions!
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I believe children's blessings are very powerful.
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Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding.
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There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points.
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There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, Justice, etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.
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Barack Obama is way smarter than Bush - so way, way smarter than me. Obama is way more charismatic than me.
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Actually, my cd was released in 1985, in return for two German missionaries and a Dutch urologist.
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You become a victim of your own success. It's what happens in TV when Fox has a big hit with the X-Files. And they start chasing and the rest of their shows suffer. Because the experimentation that made the X-Files a show is all of the sudden lost.
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The traveler from Europe edges into it like a tiny Jonah entering an inconceivably large whale, slipping past the straits of Belle Isle into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where five Canadian provinces surround him, for the most part invisible... to enter Canada is a matter of being silently swallowed by an alien continent.
