Garrison Keillor Quotes
If you can't trust a Methodist with absolute power to arrest people and not have to say why, then whom can you trust?
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The poem 'What Teachers Make' is not without its detractors. This one person wrote to me and said: 'Gee, Mr. Mali. You don't possibly have a teacher – God complex, do you?' And that was the first time I'd ever heard of that expression. So, yeah, I'm sure I have a teacher – God complex.
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I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.
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After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, 'You've got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.' And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared.
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.
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In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
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Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.
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When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
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I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.
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I think e-mail is representative of our fast food mentality in the United States, where everything has gotten faster and faster, and we're required to respond to inputs more quickly with less time for thought and reflection. I believe that we need to slow down.
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You see guys that have been in the league for a long time and have taken that opportunity to not only make their game better but to make the people around them better. And to help them know things that maybe you wish you had known.
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Everybody knows someone like that: wonderful, attractive people full of passion and ideals. You envy them, but you know there's a dark side, which is brutal and cruel and violent. That dark side informs what's wonderful about them, and the passion and rage inform the darkness; they're inseparable.
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If you can't trust a Methodist with absolute power to arrest people and not have to say why, then whom can you trust?
