William Ellery Channing Quotes
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In my downtime, you'll mostly find me curled up with a book. I love reading biographies. My favourites are those of Dalai Lama, Osama Bin Laden, and Einstein.
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I don't want anybody to not recognize how appreciative I am of the volume of e-mails I get.
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I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.
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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
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Propositions are truth-functions of elementary propositions. (An elementary proposition is a truth-function of itself.) (5)
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Watching the completed version of The Two Towers for example, I was very conscious of scenes - sometimes whole sequences - that I had seen being filmed or edited but which hadn't made it into the final cut.
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Escargot is pretty good.
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I don't separate my books into historical novels and the rest. To me, they're all made-up worlds, and both kinds are borne out of curiosity, some investigation into the past.
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Like most things that happen with Sabbath, it happened all of a sudden. I was intending on doing some recording, but out of the blue, Sharon called up and said she wanted us to do these gigs with Ozzy. I said that if everybody else was up to it then I would love to do it.
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I'm very opinionated, very intelligent and not afraid to show that.
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There won't be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make exciting copy.
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Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.
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A speaker who does not strike oil in ten minutes should stop boring.
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Do you really keep a diary? I'd give anything to look at it. May I? Oh, no. You see, it is simply a very young girl's record of her own thoughts and impressions, and consequently meant for publication. When it appears in volume form I hope you will order a copy.
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There won't remain a single Jew that we will need to defend beyond the fence.
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A biography should be a dissection and demonstration of how a particular human being was made and worked.
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The only people who can ever put ideas into context are people who don't care; the unbiased and apathetic are usually the wisest dudes in the room. If you want to totally misunderstand why something is supposedly important, find the biggest fan of that particular thing and ask him for an explanation. He will tell you everything that doesn't matter to anyone who isn't him. He will describe paradoxical details and share deeply personal anecdotes, and it will all be autobiography; he will simply be explaining who he is by discussing something completely unrelated to his life.
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Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.
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Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker.
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I, indeed, following the true law of history, have never set down any fact that I have not learned from trustworthy speakers or writers.
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History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which we are now possessed.
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What puppets we humans are - what puppets! Born without permission, dying when it is neither pleasant nor convenient, we are made to march or crawl through life on the edge of a precipice from which at any moment we may be knocked over. And we're told we should believe the experience is a privilege!
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I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.
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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
