William Cullen Bryant Quotes
Virtue cannot dwell with slaves, nor reign O'er those who cower to take a tyrant's yoke.
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Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
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I always start a play by calling the characters A, B, and C.
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I want to continue to remain present and grateful each day that I get to be doing what I love. Making and performing music I believe in.
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When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and White Minstrel' Shows.
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It's not just what Christian fiction lacks I appreciate - it's what it offers. The variety is vast: contemporary, historical, suspense, mysteries, adventure, young adult, romance, fantasy, science fiction.
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Why is Iraq so easy to harm and so hard to help?
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By the year 2020, the year of perfect vision, the old will outnumber the young.
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There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so when nice things happen to you, you're not really allowed to enjoy them.
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We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We're in a race against time, until we run out of money.
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I'm at the right age to work with dead people, but you have to be smart to be a CSI.
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There is an unwritten social rule now that you can harangue the wealthy to give money away, but you mustn't ask how the money was made. There are no galas celebrating the money people knew better than to seek. Charity begins after profit.
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A man never becomes an orator if he has anything to say.
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The discovery that the universe has no purpose need not prevent a human being from having one.
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The most important single thing about string theory is that it's a highly mathematical theory, and the mathematics holds together in a very tight and consistent way. It contains in its basic structure both quantum mechanics and the theory of gravity. That's big news.
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When you put relative and absolute truth together and they become one unit, it becomes possible to make things workable. You are not too much on the side of absolute truth, or you would become too theoretical. You are not too much on the side of relative truth, or you would become too precise. When you put them together, you realize that there is no problem.
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I never feel more at home than at a ballgame.
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Employers ganging up against workers is like raising an army of elephants against ants.
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Those who do not complain are never pitied.
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Technically, a makeup artist's canvas is the face and body. The difference is that my painting of makeup is integrated into the painting of the flesh and not on top of it. I think in some ways it is more difficult to expressively deploy makeup.
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Marriage is a fight to the death, before which the wedded couple ask a blessing from heaven, because it is the rashest of all undertakings to swear eternal love; the fight at once commences and victory, that is to say liberty, remains in the hands of the cleverer of the two.
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Servitude seizes on few, but many seize on her.
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Virtue cannot dwell with slaves, nor reign O'er those who cower to take a tyrant's yoke.
