Amelia Barr Quotes
To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly - I know not which is the greater.
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a poem is a naked person . . . some people say that I am a poet
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Festive cocktails mean color, lots of color.
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I had a great movement teacher - he showed me how to walk so I wasn't becoming like a cartoon.
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...and on MSNBC all over the world. Now, uhh, because it's available all over the world, doesn't mean, by the way, that anybody's watchin' it. Am I right Charles?'
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Chicago is an exciting place which renews itself. The workshop system encourages close reading and frank discussions of papers and ideas.
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New Yorkers are predatory about real estate. When they sense softening, they move in for the kill.
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Your timing is amazing," Kami told him. "By which I mean, I am amazed by it.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative.
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I really love school, but I'd love to continue acting jobs if I can.
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The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.
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My friends are a huge part of my inspiration.
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What Americans do is we come to each other's aid.
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The key is to photograph your obsessions, whether that’s old people’s hands or skyscrapers. Think of a blank canvas, because that’s what you’ve got, and then think about what you want to see. Not anyone else.
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Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.
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The greatest offence against virtue is to speak ill of it.
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To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.
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Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence.
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You gotta just laugh at yourself and let it go and not take things too seriously because life is too short.
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It was just so cool to put on my uncle's masks and wrestle with him. I knew that's what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a part of this world.
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To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly - I know not which is the greater.
