Wilfred Owen Quotes
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I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
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People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
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No matter where you came from, you can be inspired.
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Islam has been badly used by a certain ideology.
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This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.
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If you look at the market cap increase in Apple since it created the iPod versus what's happened to the music industry, you have to say Apple got the better part of that deal.
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My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist.
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You don't necessarily need a script or actors to tell a compelling tale. Finding a person at a key moment in his life and rendering the truth as you see it - that's the truest form of drama.
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The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again.
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I'm a voracious reader. I also have a ton of favorite TV shows I'm addicted to.
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Puerto Rico is a powerful island.
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I have transcended that phase in my intellectual growth where I discover humour in simple freakishness. What exists is real; therefore it is tragic, since wherever lives must die. Only fantasy, the vapours rising from sheer nonsense, can now excite my laughter.
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When I put out a tweet and I put Reince's name in a tweet, they're all making the assumption that it's him because journalists know who the leakers are. So if Reince wants to explain he's not a leaker, let him do that. But let me tell you about myself. I'm a straight shooter and I'll go right to the heart of the matter.
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I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me.
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Even a war zone looks peaceful in most places, most of the time.
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I love to unwind and watch movies, especially those from the classic black-and-white era.
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In my early twenties, that's when I really began to write. Before that, I was too busy working, keeping myself going.
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[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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That was a very sophisticated attack; the nature of it was novel.
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Anyone who’s made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.
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I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.
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Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.
