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'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do.
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I don't really have choices in the material I get. So I have to make the choices in the way I play the characters.
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Denmark is, like, the flattest country on Earth.
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From my perspective, probably women are won over by people who are sweet and respectful and courteous and kind and funny. I think those are the things that win women over.
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What do women do when they get together? We sit around and talk! Men, not so much. My theory is that this difference is genetic and dates back to the hunter-gatherer societies, when the men had to be quiet as they hunted, lest they scare away the bison and then everyone starved to death and it was all their fault.
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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.
