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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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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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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Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.
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In some extremely important ways, people are what you expect them to be, or at least they behave as you expect them to behave.
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America must be a light to the world, not just a missile.
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I believe that I understand gangs better than others. Because they're formed out of necessity. They're formed by people to keep from being suppressed.
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That is one of the reasons why we advocate for good relations between the two countries. Turkey understands the needs of the region.
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In conformity with the recommendation of Congress, a proposition was early made to the British Government to abolish the mixed courts created under the treaty of April 7, 1862, for the suppression of the slave trade. The subject is still under negotiation.
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But when they have realized that it society rejects them forever, they themselves assume the ostracism of which they are victims so as not to leave the initiative to their oppressors
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I wrote this book, '2030,' and I was careful in the book not to overdo the future because I don't think it comes that fast.
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The motto of the Netherlands is translated into English as 'I will uphold.' But I want you to know that, as we go forward, our message together is not just 'I will uphold,' but 'we will uphold.'
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Music is an art that goes well beyond science. Proof can be found in the huge amount of studies that have been carried out throughout the world based on music-therapy and the important results achieved.
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I just don't know what makes a movie catch on and other ones don't.
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It has seemed, at times, like American carmakers think car buyers are so blindly loyal that they will keep coming back - despite the sticker shock - for crummy cars that guzzle gas, fall apart too soon, and cost too much to repair.
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The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities.
