Alan Seeger Quotes
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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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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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'And when a strong man is sweet, even Goddesses look down from Mount Olympus.'
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If we fight our enemy using the same inhumane and morally bankrupt techniques that we are trying to stop, we will simply become what we have beheld.
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Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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I have a rendezvous with death... I will not fail that rendezvous.
