William Dean Howells (The Dean of American Letters) Quotes
The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
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Save for minor ailments and accident, my battalion is practically immune from sickness; colds come and go as a matter of course, sprains and cuts claim momentary attention, but otherwise the health of the battalion is perfect.
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Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
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Twenty percent of students in Israel's schools are haredim; another 20% are retired; another 20% are Arab. I have no problem with any of them.
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.
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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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Small businesses all across this nation are tired of the uncertainty created by Washington.
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I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by pop culture.
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Kids are very cruel to each other.
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When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.
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I look at singing and acting as one career, and I love the chance to do both in the same project. I need to do both. When I'm doing one, I miss the other.
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My ability to not be afraid to ask tough questions or to confront, that matters.
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I've worked with just as many talented women as I have talented men, and I feel fortunate enough to have that great balance.
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I mean, I love winning, but losing is a much more intense feeling.
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When van Gogh paints sunflowers, he reveals, or achieves, the vivid relation between himself, as man, and the sunflower, as sunflower, at that quick moment of time. His painting does not represent the sunflower itself. We shall never know what the sunflower itself is. And the camera will visualize the sunflower far more perfectly than van Gogh can.
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When you're 16 or 17, I think like most people that age, the first time you experience certain things in life, whether it's heartbreak or death or love, obviously it's going to seem like a much bigger deal.
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The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.
