Willa Cather Quotes
Dr. Howard Archie had just come up from a game of pool with the Jewish clothier and two traveling men who happened to be staying overnight in Moonstone.
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Boxing, in the most general terms, is a poor man's sport. All you have is your hands to make a living.
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I'm really about my family and really proud of being a Carter.
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As I matriculate my way down the field of life, I will never forget this moment and you wonderful people who helped make this day possible.
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I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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I'd open doors for anyone who opens doors for me.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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Western man is schizophrenic.
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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.
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When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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I see these guys, they throw a guy into the ropes and they do a back flip and then clothesline the guy and it looks stupid. Why don't you just clothesline the guy?
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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
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I grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California.
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If I'm staying in a hotel or I'm sleeping on my own I have the hairdryer on.
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And people who know me would tell you that away from hockey I'm really not that competitive.
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Well who's black and what is a black person?
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'Like most loners,' said Moddik, 'you carry the seeds of violent authority. Loners need to be bossy. They quickly learn it’s the only method they have of shoving people off their backs.'
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Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.
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My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.
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I know people who have been without a home for ages, and lots of my friends are sofa surfing because they are in between jobs or saving for degrees and other studies - paying £500 rent every month is just not feasible for them.
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Dr. Howard Archie had just come up from a game of pool with the Jewish clothier and two traveling men who happened to be staying overnight in Moonstone.
