Anne Royall Quotes
“In all countries, and in all ages, from the Druids down to brother Beecher, priests have aimed at universal power.”
Quotes to Explore
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Look at Inuit clothing. Their stuff still works better than Cabela's. I've made my own parkas, mukluks, footgear, and it is good to 60 degrees below zero. All I did was copy the patterns that came down from the Inuits.
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.
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We were all so different, temperamentally from one another, it's impossible to believe that we were together for so long. The cast and crew. How could we be more different from one another? It's difficult to imagine. But something lovely came of it.
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I've been noticing gravity since I was very young.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let's put it this way. I play what I like to hear. And sometimes I like to hear something poppy, and sometimes I don't.
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
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When it comes to jobs, jobs are just like products in the sense that the free market operates and sees that somebody gets paid what they're worth.
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There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them.
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After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.
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Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street's excesses. In case we forgot, that was the change we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.
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For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society.
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When you lose your freedom, you are alone with your emotions and reactions... you can see, for example, the bad reactions you have in front of others or the way you could be dismissive or harsh.
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New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.
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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
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What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rights.
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For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.
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It is a well-known fact that bringing in technologies in retail sector is good for consumers.
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Morals are private. Decency is public.
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Whatever the label on the parties, or the war cries issuing from the demagogues who lead them, the practical choice is between the plutocracy on the one side and a rabble of preposterous impossibilists on the other.
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There is a kind of belief among my students that things that are true are interesting. But most things that are true are not interesting. Four pages describing how I got up and brushed my teeth in the morning would kill you.
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The principles and methods for improvement are the same for service as for manufacturing. The actual application differs, of course, from one product to another, and from one type of service to another.
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“In all countries, and in all ages, from the Druids down to brother Beecher, priests have aimed at universal power.”
