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've always considered my work one piece and I consider that my work won't be finished until I am dead and buried and I hope that's a long, long time.
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We all come from women, and there's something extraordinary about the mothers who raised us.
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I always thought that Elvis could have been a great actor, and that he was put in a lot of unimportant movies when he could have done a lot of great ones.
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Nothing is more destructive of individual character than for a man to lose all faith in his own abilities for the prosecution of his work.
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What the Negro wants - and will not stop until he gets - is absolute and unqualified freedom and equality here in this land of his birth, and not in Africa or in some imaginary state. The Negro no longer will be tolerant of anything less than his due right and heritage. He is pursuing only that which he knows is honorably his. He knows that he is right.
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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?
