William Cullen Bryant Quotes
These struggling tides of life that seem In wayward, aimless course to tend, Are eddies of the mighty stream That rolls to its appointed end.
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The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.
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If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
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In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.
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Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.
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I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.
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There's very few dork movies made by dorks.
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I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.
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I feel that World Cup cricket should be played like football in which all the 160 countries take part. If only a handful of countries are going to keep on playing in the World Cup without making the game popular, I will be a sad man.
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Have you seen that show on Lifetime about that woman...?
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We all have a stake in ensuring that all students have the schools they deserve and that communities are leading this effort, not being left behind. To do that, we must challenge unchecked charter expansion and the forces driving it.
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Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.
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I'm not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around, see who's sleeping with whom and go home and write a novel about society. It's not the way I work.
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The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
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'In Praise of Slowness' chronicles the global trend towards deceleration that has come to be known as the Slow Movement. Don't worry, though: it is not a Luddite rant. I love speed. Going fast can be fun, liberating and productive. The problem is that our hunger for speed, for cramming more and more into less and less time, has gone too far.
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This movie is about the fact that personal repression gives rise to larger political oppression.… That when we're afraid of certain things in ourselves or we're afraid of change, we project those fears on to other things, and a lot of very ugly social situations can develop.
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The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.
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I used to go to the supermarket dressed as Peter Pan when I was about five years old.
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In my travels I am often asked if college stifles young writers. In my opinion, it doesn't stifle them enough.
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Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
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Small streams don't plan to be mighty rivers. We just move in a direction; God decides what He'll have us become.
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Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together." Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me. Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?
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These struggling tides of life that seem In wayward, aimless course to tend, Are eddies of the mighty stream That rolls to its appointed end.
