Newton B. Drury Quotes
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I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
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What I've noticed is not only in the military, but in the first responders community, that when you reach out your hand to help one of them, they almost always grab your hand with only one of theirs, because they're using their other hand to reach behind them and pull up somebody else with them.
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I have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right, and ought to be no inclination in the people of the free States to enter into the slave States, and to interfere with the question of slavery at all. I have said that always.
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Dance has always been my passion, and I love it.
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I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.
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Please write music like Wagner, only louder.
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Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness – perhaps unimaginative of me.
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I think that's why I'm an actor: so I can tell those stories without having to really live through those stories with real consequences and real stakes, real responsibility.
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Cricket pays well, so a lot of people are naturally drawn towards the game. But to carve a niche in non-cricket sports is not easy. So state governments need to be proactive. Indians need to be made aware of the power of an Olympic medal. It should be treated at par with an Oscars or a Nobel Prize.
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The blessing is that my kids have a lot of strong men and strong marriages around them, so I feel like they are getting what they need as far as role modeling. So I don't feel the pressure for them.
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Yet now, as he roared across the night sky toward an unknown destiny, he found himself facing that bleak and ultimate question which so few men can answer to their satisfaction. What have I done with my life, he asked himself, that the world will be poorer if I leave it.
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In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.
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For the way loneliness is worse when you return to it after a reprieve—like the soul’s version of putting on a wet bathing suit, clammy and miserable.
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In the potential of absurdity, hiding in the disparate combination of the various different subjects which in themselves are nothing but daily items equally in the exclusive representation of a normal item taken out of their usual context , is by far the most radical - in its effect comparable to a Japanese Zen koan - paradox to be witnessed, which modern art has produced, one of the most forceful impulses that generated from it.
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Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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We call our rich relatives the kin we love to touch.
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Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
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When I'm wrong it's never meant for you, so don't confuse my love with what I do.
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We are not so poor we must destroy our wilderness, nor so rich we can afford to.
