William Cullen Bryant Quotes
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I've had laser eye surgery and I don't wear glasses any more, so people just go, 'You're not Damien Hirst.' I don't get recognized on the street.
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Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so clear, I could see every star.
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This is kind of weird, but I eat lemons with salt as snack. They're so good!
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If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.
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I've been in the public eye now for about 15 or 16 years, and I'm very aware that fame is not a given. I have to maintain it. It's not just something that will always be there. But I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything.
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Texas, with her superior natural advantages, must become a point of attraction, and the policy of establishing with her the earliest relations of friendship and commerce will not escape the eye of statesmen.
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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There's something about a humid, dusky evening that's kind of sexy.
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If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.
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While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth.
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There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.
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Most people have excellent necks. Now they cover them with curtains, which is kind of ridiculous. But there are some beautiful necklines that you can cut into and create wonderful backs, as well as bone structure for the face.
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I wish I didn't have to perform 'Iron Man' every night.
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The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.
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I don't dream at night; life has given me the stuff I need to be able to dream during the day. I'm very lucky.
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The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.
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As someone who's been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about political reporting. Candidates bargaining access to get the kind of news coverage they want is nothing new.
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When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.
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I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.
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The symbol of all art is the Prism. The goal is unrealism. The method is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism, into the secret glories which it contains.
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Staying consistent with positive habits can be a challenge.
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The E.U. is more resilient than we give it credit for. We always muddle through.
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Nagasaki destroyed by the magic of science is the nearest man has yet approached to the realization of dreams that even during the safe immobility of sleep are accustomed to develop into nightmares of anxiety.
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And kind the voice and glad the eyes That welcome my return at night.
