William Ellery Channing Quotes
What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on!
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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.
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Nothing exists except through language.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's in my nature to be a battler.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
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I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there.
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When I was a kid, I would make these incredibly bloody movies in my back yard. I was constantly making weird blood concoctions; Jell-O and milk was a good one. I was constantly ruining clothes and staining my parents' walls and stuff.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.
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'Baahubali's success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets.
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I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful.
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I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I came from a southern Ohio steel town, and it's a town that's really struggling in a lot of ways, ways that are indicative of the broader struggles of America's working class.
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What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else, the sand falls right into where you stood and you're gone, you're history.
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When writing 'Give and Take' and 'Originals,' the predominant emotion for me was curiosity.
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Is there a poem that never reaches words And one that chaffers the time away? Is the poem both peculiar and general? There’s a meditation there, in which there seemsTo be an evasion, a thing not apprehended or Not apprehended well. Does the poet Evade us, as in a senseless element?
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I never ask my wife about my flaws. Instead I try to get her to ignore them and concentrate on my sense of humor.
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I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write.
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I have a theory: I believe that with the advent of the United States and the lawful definition of marriage, it was defined as between one man and one woman. It was anti-polygamy, in effect saying no man can hoard his women.
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Earl Scruggs is the guy who really made that leap with using three fingers in a rotating fashion to create this fast rippling sound that had never been heard before.
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What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on!
