William Ellery Channing Quotes
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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However, it does seem now that the international community, more importantly the powers that have influence, and, even more importantly, Afghanistan's neighbors realize that it is high time that they work together, and not against one another.
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I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going to jail. They said, 'Boy, you better start taking this seriously; you got a chance to do something with your life.' That's when I realised I had to focus. The music led to the acting.
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Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
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My sister is an ER doctor, and my brother is a teacher.
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The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.
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The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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Look, the justice system is made up of people. People have faults. It's not perfect.
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Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.
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Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.
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I love going to my supermarket. Sounds so rock 'n' roll, eh?
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I was never for Richard Nixon until Watergate.
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If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out.
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I'm a happy-go-lucky character. I'm not that miserable. But I can never let anyone into my world.
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Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.
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Good sex is impossible to write about. Lawrence and Updike have given it their all, and the result is still uneasy and unsure. It may be that good sex is something fiction just can't do - like dreams. Most of the sex in my novels is absolutely disastrous. Sex can be funny, but not very sexy.
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My wife she's fat. Why, if she lost a few pounds, she'd be perfectly round.
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When I was getting overly 'droppy,' that's when I was hitting shots left and right. That's what we were doing, so maybe if my swing was a touch flatter, I wouldn't drop the club as much.
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May your life preach more loudly than your lips.
