Augustus Saint-Gaudens Quotes
Coming to Paris has been a wonderful experience, surprising in many respects, one of them being to find how much of an American I am.
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It really doesn't matter to me whether it's defensive end or linebacker. I just want to play the game of football. I've been working on linebacker drills since I got out to Fischer Sports in Phoenix.
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Fallout shelters are like bell-bottoms. They've gone in and out of favor.
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I'm happy that I'm alive. I feel like someone coming back from Vietnam, you know; I'm sure that later on I'll start killing people in a square somewhere, but right now, I just feel happy to be alive.
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I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parents off that I was gay.
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Do send out a newsletter when you have a new book out or are going on tour. Also list relevant event dates and notifications of contests you are running.
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As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss, and has all the power. I'm a control freak, so that's really hard for me.
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The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.
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I think we love watching rich people behave badly. It has a sort of grisly fascination for us.
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I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.
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But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near.
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Upbeat is for people who want to feel good about their cause: the reformers, the progressives, the revolutionaries, the utopians, the collectivists, and the rest of the altruistic scum of the earth. Why do these people want to feel good? They want to feel good in order to convince themselves that they are good.
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Mr. President, there comes to a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and liberty and privacy to suffer. That time is now. And I will not let the PATRIOT Act, the most un-patriotic of acts, go unchallenged.
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a Masonic plot backed by the Jews
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I myself was born with an enormous need for affection and a terrible need to give it
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A rock'n'roll band needs to be able to get under people's skin. You should be able to clear the room at the drop of a hat.
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I was hoping to attend the School of Visual Arts and had a portfolio built up.
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The city - as the theater of experience, the refuge, the hiding place - has, in turn, been replaced by an abstraction, the fast lane. In the fast lane, the passive observer reduces everything - streets, people, rock lyrics, headlines - to landscape. Every night holds magical promises of renewal. But burnout is inevitable, like some law of physics.
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Experience was my only teacher; I knew little of the modern art movement. When I first saw the works of the Impressionists, van Gogh, van Dongen, and Fauves, I admired it. But I had to seek the true way alone.
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I keep telling myself I should try very hard to write a novel of about 210 pages... I don't seem to be capable of it, but I keep hoping it will happen.
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You've got to understand what makes the character human.
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Coming to Paris has been a wonderful experience, surprising in many respects, one of them being to find how much of an American I am.
