William Allen White Quotes
If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be.
Quotes to Explore
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The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.
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Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
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Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
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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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All I have to do to continue to make things work is make great records, and that's more important than having a crazy master plan.
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I am totally a fringe candidate, and so is Bill Weld: you know, two Republican governors serving in heavily blue states, outspoken, small government guys, outspoken on the social liberal side. We're fringe, totally. We're fringe.
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I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
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I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever.
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Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.
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The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.
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I was truly honored to work with legendary DJ and producer DJ Premier. I still can't believe I have a track with Premier; it really is one of the best songs I've written in a long time.
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In all these years, I've understood one thing: that it's only your work that should do all the talking.
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I look at singing and acting as one career, and I love the chance to do both in the same project. I need to do both. When I'm doing one, I miss the other.
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It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.
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I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.
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The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.
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All I listened to until age 18 growing up was musical theater. I liked the escapism of it.
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Water is the foundation for our economies, communities, ecosystems, and quality of life.
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Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.
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In America and in most of the industrialized world, men are coming to be thought of by feminists in very much the same way that Jews were thought of by early Nazis. The comparison is overwhelmingly scary.
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My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone, Can make the truth known.
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Be on guard, my soul, of complicating your environment so that you have neither time nor room for growth!
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I have not heard a report of thousands of people in the convention center who don't have food and water.
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If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be.
