Alan Seeger Quotes
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I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.
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Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.
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Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.
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We're trying to create a better world, not a perfect one. It cannot ever be perfect.
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You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.
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I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.
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Dirk Nowitzki has been my hero for many years.
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To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.
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America is a meritocracy.
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As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass or does it come in like honey?
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I think there's a certain space people have decided I occupy - the funny-sidekick thing.
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If we want girls to receive positive reinforcement for early acts of leadership, let's discourage bossy behavior along with banning bossy labels. That means teaching girls to engage in behaviors that earn admiration before they assert their authority.
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When you get older, 10 matches a year are enough.
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Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.
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The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.
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I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children’s story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children’s story. The good ones last. A waltz which you can like only when you are waltzing is a bad waltz.
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Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.
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Acting is very competitive. There are few good scripts out there and the ones that are good are very competitive. You look at your options and often times they're not too appealing.
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Cats will outsmart dogs every time.
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I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'
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I have a rendezvous with death... I will not fail that rendezvous.