Washington Allston Quotes
All effort at originality must end either in the quaint or the monstrous. For no man knows himself as an original; he can only believe it on the report of others.
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Well, I happen to believe all business is female business.
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I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
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If you believe that markets operate in Alan Greenspan fashion, then you don't inquire into the details.
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I believe wealth should be in the hands of those who know how to create more wealth.
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I really believe deep in my soul that we're going to have to step up and face these challenges and be tough and pull together and unify and be creative and be willing to sacrifice.
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I believe that Orthodoxy has been thinking lately, and despite other impressions, that we can't have full sacramental communion if we don't first have a fundamental agreement on the question of the primacy, that still isn't there.
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The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
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Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
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I believe a great performer is someone who sounds just as great live as they do in the studio and vice versa. They should know how to work the stage.
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When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.
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I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.
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I don't believe in killing people. I believe in locking you up for the rest of your life.
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The frontiers of science, on the very small scale and very large scale, require large investments and international effort.
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I played lots of fantasy games. I would create these worlds, and I would believe in them.
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But I will say this: In my humble opinion, knowing nothing about it, I do believe that they have remote viewers working on where Osama Bin Laden is. I absolutely, 100%, convinced of that.
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I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.
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I believe in the jury system.
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I don't do much recording anymore, but before I really stopped, I was glad to get five, five cent a record. That's why when I see people today and they complain about what they get, and I picked cotton for $2.50 a day.
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Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.
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God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
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If you look at the newspapers here - the Washington papers - most of the discussion deals with campaign gossip.
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Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to be a plausible poem in English.
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All effort at originality must end either in the quaint or the monstrous. For no man knows himself as an original; he can only believe it on the report of others.
