William Arthur Ward Quotes
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I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Convention. I think a lot of the bump that we enjoyed came when John Kerry selected John Edwards as his running mate.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.
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What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed.
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I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
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That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
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For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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I generally have a brand of brief on every day.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.
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The most important thing is posture: when you get old, it's the way you walk, the way you stand, that shows it.
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If religion is the opiate of the people, tradition is an even more sinister analgesic, simply because it rarely appears sinister. If religion is a tight band, a throbbing vein, and a needle, tradition is a far homelier concoction: poppy seeds ground into tea; a sweet cocoa drink laced with cocaine; the kind of thing your grandmother might have made.
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I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren, And the tree toad is a chef-d'oeurve for the highest, And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven, And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery, And the cow crunching with depress'd head surpasses any statue, And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels!
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There are a lot of people who do a lot of things to be outrageous with fashion, hair or makeup.
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The good face pain. But the great? They embrace it.
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Sochi started with the same problem as every Winter Olympics. Forget the crass commercialism, the fake amateurism, NBC's refusal to televise important events live to all its viewers. As an event, the Winter Games fail on the most basic level. They're lousy to watch.
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Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
