William Dean Howells (The Dean of American Letters) Quotes
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If history remembers me at all, in any way, I hope it will be as a man who loved the Land of Israel and watched over it in every way he could, all his life.
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We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white.
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If I'm brave, 99% of it comes from my mother.
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I'm intrigued by the dark. Out of darkness comes creation.
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These days I seem to think a lotAbout the things that I forgot to doFor youAnd all the times I had the chance to.
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Congratulation, n. The civility of envy.
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Welfare makes you dependent upon someone to take care of you.
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The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.
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I love Neil Young. His songs were the first songs I learned to play, and I recommend anyone who is starting guitar to learn Neil Young songs first.
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I inhaled books. I loved Classics Illustrated comic books. These were books that I could afford to buy after I turned in pop bottles for change. 'The Prince and the Pauper,' 'Robinson Crusoe,' 'A Journey to the Center of the Earth.' Male narratives filled with adventure and self-discovery.
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You can't live for a moment that may not happen. You need to live in the moment.
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People see my photos and think I labor over my image and I'm this cool, brooding artist. But I'm just having fun with it.
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There's a gotcha piece in every interview that the press has, more or less, with President Trump.
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April 25th is DNA Day. I know, you probably had no idea.
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Acting was truly all that I ever wanted to do. I've always acted in plays and sang and played music, and you get to a certain age and think there's nothing else that you'd rather do.
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In 1985, if you were a wrestling fan, you were into Hogan; that's just the way it was.
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Music is just kind of an expression of who I am. It's what I do.
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I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?
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Millennials aren't looking for a hipper Christianity.
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The Internet is light at the end of the tunnel. I don't care if it's being used to peddle pornography, I don't care if it's being trivialized in a thousand ways. Anything can be trivialized. The important point is that it is leveling the playing field of global society. It is creating de-facto an entirely new set of political realities. None of the constipated, oligarchic structures that are resisting this were ever asked. Their greed betrayed them into investing in this in the first place without ever fully grasping what the implications of it were for their larger agenda.
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I wasn't part of the Taboo crowd the same way I was part of the New Romantics. I suppose I was seen more as an elder statesman because I had been around the London club scene for so many years. To the Taboo crowd I was really seen as a pop star, someone famous.
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We were always focused on our profit and loss statement. But cash flow was not a regularly discussed topic. It was as if we were driving along, watching only the speedometer, when in fact we were running out of gas.
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If ever the public was betrayed by its press, it's ours.
