William Strunk, Jr. Quotes
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I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.
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There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local culture harboured very different views about mental illness and healing. These experiences have profoundly influenced my thinking.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.
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Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
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Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
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It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.
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Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.
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I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.
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I am that guy who will say things that people seem to think is a little edgy, a little racy.
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When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.
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Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
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The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years.
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You see a lot of these movies that are really just 90-minute video games. The effects are incredible. I get it: There's an art to that, terrific. I'm not interested in it, but there's an art to that I suppose.
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Armstrong was the key creator of the mature working language of jazz. Three decades after his death and more than three-quarters of a century since his influence first began to spread, not a single musician who has mastered that language fails to make daily use, knowingly or unknowingly, of something that was invented by Louis Armstrong.
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By the age of nine or ten, I knew that I loved history and writing. It got hold of me and never turned loose.
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On the PGA Tour, guys finish in the top 10, make a ton of money and think they're great players. In my era, you had to win. We didn't settle for anything else.
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The average scene in a film, you have to shoot it 15, 20 times. That means you got to laugh or cry 15, 20 times.
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Instead of announcing what you are about to tell is interesting, make it so.
