Willa Cather Quotes
The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.
Quotes to Explore
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I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
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During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
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People take things so seriously.
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You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support.
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The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.
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You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don't want too high of a valuation.
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We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.
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I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.
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To Republicans, I humbly suggest that we make it possible for Democrats to give up their quest for redistribution of income and wealth by our acceptance of an appropriate role for government in financing those public goods and services necessary to secure a social safety net below which no American would be allowed to fall.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
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I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.
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The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.
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I can't even imagine life without music!
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I think a lot of singers are shy people. I suppose singing on stage is not like talking; you are not as exposed.
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I'll be the first US president to not only visit Kenya and Ethiopia, but also to address the continent as a whole, building off the African summit that we did here which was historic and has, I think, deepened the kinds of already strong relationships that we have across the continent.
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We have a lot of relationships to the gatekeepers who can rally their people to go to the movie theater. It's a trusting relationship.
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We try to organize the world, which isn't organized the way our brains want to organize it. We tell stories about the people in our lives, we project ideas onto them. We project relationships with people, we make our lives into stories. I don't think we can avoid doing that.
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When I was 15 years old, I left school and became a professional boxer.
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The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.
