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.
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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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Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
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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 am an opponent of war and of war preparations and an opponent of universal military training and conscription; but entirely apart from that issue, I hold that segregation in any part of the body politic is an act of slavery and an act of war.
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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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As a memoirist, I may claim to write the easier-to-remember things, but I could also just be writing to sweep them away. 'Don't bother me about my past,' I'll say, 'It's out in paperback now.'
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Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.
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I understand the importance of mentorship for young people, even outside their parents. That's more important now than ever. You gotta have that support system everywhere you can.
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I'm trying to get out of my own way.
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Today I must humbly thank Providence, whose grace has enabled me, who was once an unknown soldier in the War, to bring to a successful issue the struggle for the restoration of our honor and rights as a nation.
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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.
