William Allen White Quotes
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
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The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.
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If we hold the poverty thought, the penury thought, the thought of lack, we cannot demonstrate abundance. We must hold the plenty thought if we would reach plenty.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov -
It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I came into this league by myself, and I'll leave by myself.
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The music of the Clovers and Spaniels and the rest was like candy to me. I couldn't get enough; my teachers probably thought I had attention deficit disorder.
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Glossier - our content, our products - it's for all for you; it's ours.
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I thank the Almighty for the most wonderful 18 years. Far, far, too short a time.
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We don't have any rules about how we depict violence, or how much violence is in a movie. It's a calibration on a case-by-case basis.
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You're not a bunch of people lock-stepped with the politically correct. Oh no! Don't shoot the animals! They might get their feelings hurt!
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Eating and food are a wonderful part of our life's experience, and half of us are walking around dreading having to figure out what to put in our mouths.
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My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.
