Anthony Swofford Quotes
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Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.
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Every story makes a promise to the reader. Actually, two promises, one emotional and one intellectual, since the function of stories is to make us both feel and think.
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By the end of 2020, the only region of the world that will still have a lot of 2G connections may be Africa.
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The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.
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We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely.
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I could not finish the rest of the tours the band had planned. I was replaced by Matt Cameron. The next years of my life were about recovery, healing, and right living. I never lost the need to create.
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As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.
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Silence is a text easy to misread.
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Gilbert White discovered the formula for complete happiness, but he died before making the announcement, leaving it for me to do so. It is to be very busy with the unimportant.
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Not every actor is a Tom Cruise. They are not all used to doing big action movies and doing sliding bikes and cars and fights. So you've got to take actors who have maybe not done that kind of stuff and get them through some proper training first.
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O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark, The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant
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You are falling into your old error, Jeeves, of thinking that Gussie is a parrot. Fight against this. I shall add the oz.
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Too much emotion is like none at all.
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Exercise is the main thing that helped me lose weight.
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I think it is all a matter of love.
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I didn't lose the gold. I won the silver.
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With a record of 75 fights and 6 losses, some of the losses were very questionable including Brian Nielsen when we fought in Denmark. I knew I won but they didn't give me that fight.
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My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them. They tell me those who were poor early have different views of gold. I don't know how that is. God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him.
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My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness.
