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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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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I've had some threaten not to give Communion to me, even though they don't know my position, just because I'm a Democrat. I've had cardinals refuse to shake my hand because I'm a Democrat.
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A comedian is not a person who opens a funny door - he's the person who opens a door funny.
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The cypresses are always occupying my thoughts.
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Words are the most powerful thing in the universe... Words are containers. They contain faith, or fear, and they produce after their kind.
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The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.
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And to the rest of the world God gave you shoes to fit you So put 'em on and wear 'em Be yourself man, be proud of who you are Even if it sounds corny Don't ever let anyone tell you you ain't beautiful
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Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.
