William Allen White Quotes
Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.
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I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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The situation is quite serious - groundwater is important source for water use, including drinking water, and if it gets contaminated, it's very costly and difficult to clean.
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Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.
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I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.
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I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
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Hemingway was a jerk.
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Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
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I don't have a very quick sense of humor.
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When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.
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The value of 'Made in Italy' must necessarily be up-to-date. This is the philosophy that Italia Independent has embraced. We decided from the outset to do away with stereotypes and attune ourselves to the extreme pace, to the incessant metamorphoses of the globalized world.
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There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.
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When I was 15, I worked as a bag boy in a grocery store. I also needed to walk old ladies to their car and put their bags in the car, and they would give me two dollars. I felt like the richest man in the world.
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The hope of a nation depends on a president that will follow through even in the most unfavorable of political climates.
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Don't get me wrong, I love watching episodes of my favorite shows on Hulu and reading the daily trash on PageSix, but I also embrace the opportunity to settle down with a good book and let my mind travel to another place and time.
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When I do my best work, the stories tend to be pretty emotionally-charged.
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In 'Deadliest Catch,' we have men in ships in rough seas catching crabs. With 'Whale Wars,' we have men and women from a dozen different nations going out to sea in rough weather to help save the whales. We also have icebergs, whales, penguins, and dramatic ship-to-ship confrontations.
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That was always my experience-a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton .... However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works.
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Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.
