William Gilmore Simms Quotes
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way.
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
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The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.
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I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.
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Only 10 percent of the people in the U.S. like dry wines. You shouldn't get down on people just because they like a little sugar.
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I feel that 'Tokoyo Drift' blew people away because not many people had high expectations for it.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.
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You get more insight as you get older, on everything.
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The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.
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What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.
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People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
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When I talk to Chicagoans who live in our most violence-prone neighborhoods, they do not hate the police. In fact, they tell me they want more cops and fewer gangs. They do not want more officers in cars just driving through their communities. They want officers on the beat in their neighborhoods.
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When I moved in, I said, 'I don't care how this makes me look or sound: I am converting one of these bedrooms into a shoe closet.' It's become more of a dressing room, but one wall is shoes in their perfect cubbies.
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Like I said, I'm just trying to continue to improve and get better.
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This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking.
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I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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For 42 years, I worked nonstop from 7 A.M. to 5 P.M., day in and day out.
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I suspect that no community will become humane and caring by restricting what its members can say.
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The dread of criticism is the death of genius.
