Edmund White Quotes
My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with copperheads.
Quotes to Explore
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If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
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The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
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I'm not just a rapper. I'm a child educator.
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Your connections to all the things around you literally define who you are.
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My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script. And that means that I need to do it, because the things that scare you only make you better and stronger.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
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Ever since I was a kid, I've wanted to set a time that nobody can touch for many years.
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I work in areas related to child protection and family safety, women's empowerment, the creation of opportunities for youth, and culture and tourism. Daunting? Yes. Impossible? No. In fact, such challenges energize me.
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I found out my baby was visiting Julie Chen a lot, from 'The Talk', and my nanny was just like, 'Oh yeah, that's Julie. We pop in on her all the time.'
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One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.
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There may have been many big bangs, one of which created our universe. The other bangs created other universes.
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Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.
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My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with copperheads.
