Rebecca Harding Davis Quotes
You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do.
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They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.
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It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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If my subject is alive and is willing to talk to me, I will do it. But I always try to find people who were close, like lovers and family members and work colleagues - because we are what we think we are, but we're also the perception that others have of us. The truth is a sphere. There's always a hidden face.
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Black players had an issue with Joe Torre. They weren't treated like everybody else. Even I got called out in a couple of meetings that I thought was unfair.
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I'm ridiculous to feel ridiculous when I'm not. You must be laughing at me for feeling you are laughing at me if you are not laughing at me.
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As with all the other proposals, it's basically just a list of words. You can deal with that...
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I've got perfectionist issues, as I can't seem to let tracks out the studio - it drives my manager nuts.
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I felt that writing about peoples' lives was a heck of a responsibility, and I wanted to know them in a deep way.
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I like making things. I don't like getting my picture taken.
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If everyone in America can easily see who and what their lawmakers are requesting taxpayer money for, we can keep elected officials honest, end the days of political, special interest favors, and reduce wasteful spending.
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Political differences will always generate a healthy debate, but over time the dialogue has become more hateful and at times violent.
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How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?
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Curiosity is vital to the growth of our society.
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Sometimes, you feel like, 'Am I going to be upset about this as a black person or as a woman first? Or am I gonna be both?' Because some things inherently affect black women; some things affect you as a woman and not a black person; and some things just affect you as a black person.
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I'm not motivated by having the largest revenue base - you get that as an outcome. If we do our job well, we will be appropriately rewarded.
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It's going to be really weird when I'm 80 years old, in a walker, and people are still calling me America's sweetheart. We need a new one.
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I went into the Air Corps from 1943 through 1945.
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Being a very bad daughter, I never really took time to sit down and listen to my mother's story, and she passed away in 2003. I became very guilty and began to spend a lot of time with older people. I listened carefully to their stories.
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I didn't go abroad until quite late. A friend drove us to Amalfi, Italy, for his sister's wedding when I was a teenager. It was exciting driving through Europe.
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I know I play into that image out there, but I try to say it is a fantasy. I look at my own pictures and wish I could look like that. There are probably five people in this whole entire world who actually look like that.
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Something like 'Abstract' can really give people access to the behind-the-scenes of how our physical surroundings take shape.
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I'm not a savior.
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You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do.
