William Allen White Quotes
We all have weaknesses. But I have figured that others have put up with mine so tolerably that I would be much less than fair not to make a reasonable discount for theirs.
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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You should never say 'D'Brickashaw' and 'bust' in the same sentence. You should never even think that. It should be D'Brickashaw, Pro Bowl, D'Brickashaw, Jets, Super Bowl.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.
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The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.
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I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.
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What came up at age 49 is I realized that of all the things I'm interested in, the thing I'm most interested in is figuring out what makes people tick, why people think the way they do, why they act the way they do. And I realized that music is such a great way to investigate why people do what they do.
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I like to do my own make-up.
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The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
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I live for the text. It's my job.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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When my senior prom was happening, I was in Malta filming 'Troy.'
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I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
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Kosovo is too close to Europe. It is not only close to Albania, it is close to Greece, Italy, Germany and Switzerland, where there are still many Kosovo refugees. Spontaneous reactions could multiply.
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A Kindle returns us to the inconvenience of the scroll, except with batteries and electronic glitches. It's as handy as bringing Homer along to recite the 'Iliad' while playing a lyre.
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I used to love to draw. I didn't want to go to art class because I felt that would be too corny when I was young, but architectural drafting was the cool thing to do because there was more precision. It taught me a lot about building and structures and doorways and frames and windowsills.
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Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.
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I can understand the poor and stupid voting for Marxism or one of its fashionable variants. If you've no hope of being other than a slave, you may as well opt for the most efficient form of slavery.
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I'd worked at the White House for two years, and I'd read a bunch of White House memoirs because everybody who works at the White House, even for five minutes, writes a memoir usually not less than 600 pages long - and never without the word 'power' in the title.
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… imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people's lives.
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Educational enterprises do not for any length of time remain immune from the struggle of interests for power which is the dominant feature of social life under a class system.
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A lot of people are obsessed with looking cool. They feel they have to look after their image.
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We all have weaknesses. But I have figured that others have put up with mine so tolerably that I would be much less than fair not to make a reasonable discount for theirs.
