Edmund Burke Quotes
The wise will determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable from sensibility to oppression; the high-minded from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.

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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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I was really lucky to work at CBS news. I was blessed to be able to live my dream in many ways at CBS news.
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I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.
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I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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More than 70 percent of seniors are asking for more time. It is long overdue for Congress to listen and make sure that seniors have a prescription drug plan that works for them.
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Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.
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With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.
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You can do anything as long as you have the passion, the drive, the focus, and the support.
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I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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For me, growing up in a ridiculously poor family living in dead-end neighborhoods, Superman was a deeply personal icon, one that said you can do anything if you put your mind to it. What he stood for formed the core of who I wanted to be as I grew up, and informed how I view the world and my responsibilities to other people.
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I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.
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I love to get a massage but I'm quite a baby with it. I don't like them too hard or anyone walking on me or anything. When it's good, it's the best thing ever. When it's bad, it's an hour of absolute agony.
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Actually, I wanted to become a journalist, but no matter who I imagined myself to be in the future, somehow I was sure: I would leave my hometown. I felt it was my destiny.
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Hide me from day's garish eye,While the bee with honied thigh,That at her flowery work doth sing,And the waters murmuringWith such consort as they keep,Entice the dewy-feathered sleep.
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Every song asks to be sung in a different way.
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The whole idea of interviews is in itself absurd – one cannot answer deep questions about what one's life was like – one writes novels about it.
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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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The wise will determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable from sensibility to oppression; the high-minded from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.