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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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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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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We all want what's been suddenly disallowed.
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My father was a Tuskegee Airmen captain in the Air Force and a very strong personality. He believed in fairness and ethics and living up to the commitments you make to others. He ultimately became a judge, and he would talk to me over and over about how important it is to be fair.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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Jesse has a new dog. You may have noticed that his former pets have been peculiarly unfortunate. When this dog dies every employee in the White House will be at once discharged.
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One can spend too much of one's life locked in stuffy rooms seeking out obscure truths, searching, researching, until one is too old to enjoy life.
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What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on!
