William Cullen Bryant Quotes
Showers and sunshine bring, Slowly, the deepening verdure o'er the earth; To put their foliage out, the woods are slack, And one by one the singing-birds come back.
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I like to stay home. I don't want to be away shooting in Europe for six or eight months at a stretch.
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In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.
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I had two things I could do: I could run over you, and I could put a good stiff arm on you. That was about it.
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The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.
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I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.
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I love to learn, and at some level, there's something to learn from my books. And I love art and philosophy, so there's something philosophical about my fiction.
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You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.
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I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
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They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.
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Every year I go to the Google Zeitgeist conference, which is invite-only, and I'm one of about 20 women and five fashion people out of the 400 there.
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When Ignatius understood that God did not wish him to remain at Jerusalem, he began to consider what he should do. The plan he approved and adopted was to enter upon a course of study in order to be better fitted to save souls.
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As President Obama clearly said just a few months ago, China must play by the international rules, the international trading system from which they've benefited so much.
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It's getting worse under Prime Minister Modi. The economic miracle has failed, to a degree, and people are reaching back to a kind of imagined Hindu past for a feeling of pride. And that feeling of pride necessarily comes from denying any kind of Muslim heritage. People my age seem to be becoming illiberal in a way that I'm surprised by.
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I know all the books of the Bible.
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My fans are my family, because they understand me and I understand them.
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Well, I think it can be quite helpful to be working on a character who actually existed, historically. Of course, you might have material to study and help you create the character.
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I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.
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It all comes down to when spring training comes. Do you want to go or don't you? If you want to go, you go.
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I guess you shouldn't smoke cigarettes and not eat.
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One may aspire to succeed Chairman Greenspan but it will not be possible to replace him.
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Showers and sunshine bring, Slowly, the deepening verdure o'er the earth; To put their foliage out, the woods are slack, And one by one the singing-birds come back.
