Albert Payson Terhune Quotes
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Everybody thinks they deserve something.
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I don't want my children to have any kind of ego or entitlement because of what I do. I want them to be good people, and we fight every day so that they'll be that way.
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Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and not a metaphor.
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I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.
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Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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Habit is a great deadener.
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My parents had normal jobs, and I didn't just want to work all day, and so I thought if I could break into music I wouldn't have to work all day. And I had an uncle who was on Broadway, so I was like, 'I have to be able to sing.'
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You can tell all our songs come from us and from our artists, the people we write with and travel with.
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My favourite game is Postal because it is so politically incorrect.
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I climbed nine mountains because I love adventure, and I got addicted to that feeling and I never wanted to stop. I wanted to see what I could accomplish. I finally can say that I stood on top of the world.
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I know that in my own personal life, the people who I have dated who are funny can get away with a lot more than the people who aren't.
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I used to have a rant all the time when things went wrong, at everybody around me, because you just have to get the frustration out.
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A rationalist, as I use the word, is a man who attempts to reach decisions by argument and perhaps, in certain cases, by compromise, rather than by violence. He is a man who would rather be unsuccessful in convincing another man by argument than successful in crushing him by force, by intimidation and threats, or even by persuasive propaganda.
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What is now common to all men is a mere abstract universal, an H.C.F. Highest Common Factor, and Man's conquest of himself means simply the rule of the Conditioners over the conditioned human material, the world of post-humanity which, some knowingly and some unknowingly, nearly all men in all nations are at present labouring to produce.
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But Lord! to see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at every thing that looks strange.
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Anybody can be a pendejo, said John Grady. That just means asshole.
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I wrote 'Happy Man' with a couple of boys of mine. I have been writing in Nashville for a long time. Of course I was writing songs back in Oklahoma when I was a kid.
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We are a Nation of peace and compassion, yet these people have and will devote every fiber of their beings to the destruction of Americans and our Country.
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It is rewarding beyond words to rescue a dog from the shelter and have that dog become part of your family.
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We don't have titles on our business cards. No one really gets any special treatment. No one gets a corner office to put pictures of their family and their dog in.
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They bring me faith like a closed package in someone else's plate. They want me to accept it so that I don't open it.
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For any truth, if “overdone” (as Dietzgen Senior put it), if exaggerated, or if carried beyond the limits of its actual applicability, can be reduced to an absurdity, and is even bound to become an absurdity under these conditions.
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No breeder is above catering to intelligent praise of his dog.
