William Cullen Bryant Quotes
Hark to that shrill, sudden shout, The cry of an applauding multitude, Swayed by some loud-voiced orator who wields The living mass as if he were its soul!
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I was raised in Argentina until I was 11 and now I go back there a lot, at least twice a year. It's a country where I feel very comfortable and it represents an important period in my life.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
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My professional dreams were coming true while I was living a personal nightmare.
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I don't think of 'Macbeth' as the villain. I don't think of 'King Lear' as the villain. I don't think of 'Hamlet' as the villain. I don't think of 'Travis Bickle' as the villain.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.
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Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing.
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You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
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As important as the presidency is, that's not the only thing to take a look at in determining the racial health of the United States.
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After a 15-year career in television news, sometimes spent biting my tongue in the name of objectivity and balance, I retired to raise our two small children.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are basically sort of straight news.
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It's mystifying to me why the House leadership will not allow a straight up-or-down vote on a pay raise. I vote against every pay raise because taxpayers deserve better.
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I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.
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Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.
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When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
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I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.
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Real estate development is an economic engine like no other. When we start a project, we create jobs from day one – from the architects and engineers to the hardworking men and women in the construction trades.
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Why would the disciples invent a God whose holiness was more terrifying than the forces of nature that provoked them to invent a god in the first place?
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Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are to be pitied rather than ridiculed.
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Your genome sequence will become a vital part of your medical record, thereby providing critical information about how to optimize your wellness.
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Let us not wonder if something happens which never was before, or if something doth not appear among us with which the ancients were acquainted.
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Hark to that shrill, sudden shout, The cry of an applauding multitude, Swayed by some loud-voiced orator who wields The living mass as if he were its soul!
