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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I fear a permanent Confederation will never be settled; tho the most material articles are I think got thro', so as to give great offence to some, but to my Satisfaction.
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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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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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Television has accustomed us to brief, intimate, telegraphic, visual, narrative messages. Candidates are learning to act, speak, and think in television's terms. In the process they are transforming speeches, debates, and their appearances in news into ads.
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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.
