Willa Cather Quotes
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Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
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I don't know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.
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I am the guardian of power, not its owner.
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You can get awful famous in this country in seven days.
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For me, art is always a kind of theater. When I started the spot paintings, I made them as an endless series. But I was never serious about it being an endless series. It was just an implied endless series. The theater means you just have to make it look good for that moment in the spotlight.
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With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.
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Peacemaking and democratic state-building require blood and magic.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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There are certainly talented instrumentalists coming from India. I see them performing all over the world.
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I didn't have a sense of being in a show business family or of being different, partly because Los Angeles is an industry town, so you don't think about it as being special.
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When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
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Everything that I design I would wear myself.
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'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.
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I spent two years figuring out how I could turn it into something that would satisfy me as a musician but also make some kind of cross-cultural link. I feel that I kind of at least touched on the possibilities of cross-cultural music, but it is a lifetime's work, and I don't profess to be anything other than a novice at it.
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Honesty is most important, and it's difficult when you're young and single and sort of figuring out your own life.
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The yellow Indians do have a meagre talent. The Negroes are far below them, and at the lowest point are a part of the American people.
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I knew that whatever I set my mind to do. I could do.
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In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.
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I was managing editor for a while [in National Lampoon ], and it does cause business problems when your circulation goes up.
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To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent.
