Wilfrid Sheed Quotes
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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
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I look a certain way. I have a very specific kind of look.
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God made a mistake with me. I'm actually black, trapped in a white body.
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The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.
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This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export trade, and as much as possible convert all of their manufacturing facilities to the immediate needs of the war, including civilian, as well as military requirements.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.
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I just wanted laughs - that's really what I was after.
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Power might feel tasty and good in the moment, but it will never be satisfying, never fill you up. Yep, no matter how much power you get, you will always feel empty. You just keep wanting more and more power.
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Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.
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You can be romantically interested in someone and love them and still, I think, be really interested in things and a certain lifestyle that person might provide.
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I think my strength is always been in being very natural. I think Shakespeare and things like that would be more a stretch for me.
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I think it's most important to, rather than just do what everybody else is doing, like tons of selfies, find out what makes you excited. You know, is it taking pictures and doing cool makeup and making yourself look great? If so, wonderful. Is it music? Is it teaching something? Are you great at teaching?
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She can only believe I am serious in her own fashion of being serious: as an antic sort of seriousness, which is not seriousness at all but despair masquerading as seriousness.
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The only places where I have found that simple human dignity, that respect for the other man, and the gracious feel of tolerance and humanity have not been either among the heroes of the class-struggle or the 'thinking men' but among my simple 'backward' people.
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Writers should be applauded for their ability to make things up.
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The very thing that most qualifies us to pray is our helplessness.
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The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities.
