Thomas R. Marshall Quotes
I'm from Indiana, the home of more first-rate second-class men than any other state in the union.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!
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You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.
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The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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Scriptures reveal the divine desires of the Lord in our behalf. Each of us should have a burning desire to search the scriptures diligently and daily to seek the will of the Lord in our life. For some, it may be necessary to develop the discipline to search the scriptures daily.
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
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Our present will become the past of other men and women. We depend on them to remember it with the complexity with which it was suffered. As others, once, depended on us.
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I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow.
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When my family did shy away from Indian food, we'd eat a lot of Chinese. We'd use the wok a lot. I never had a problem with Brussels sprouts or broccoli growing up. I always grew up with the mentality of finishing your plate.
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Countries aren't built by boring people.
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You're never really cancer-free and I should have known that.
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Sports saved my life.
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I try to get to the gym whenever I can, eat healthy, mostly protein and vegetables, avoid processed sugar and minimize carbs, but I don't feel like I need to go crazy if I want pasta now and then.
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Hence money may be dirt, although dirt is not money.
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It is better to ride a pony than a horse which throws you.
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Owen says my book will be forgotten in 10 years; perhaps so, but, with such a list of prestigious scientific supporters, I feel convinced that the subject will not.
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Sri Yukteswar showed no special consideration to those who happened to be powerful or accomplished; neither did he slight others for their poverty or illiteracy. He would listen respectfully to words of truth from a child, and openly ignore a conceited pundit.
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A lot of things you just stumble into: relationships or ways of putting characters opposite one another that really worked. So then it's not always so much about imitating other people, but imitating yourself, at least in your thinking.
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Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.
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A camera teaches you how to see without a camera.
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I'm from Indiana, the home of more first-rate second-class men than any other state in the union.
