Washington Irving Quotes
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The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something.
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I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.
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My position does not give me the liberty to exclude anything, but my mood tells me there will not be violence.
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When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
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We just feel like history repeats itself. You ain't never going to see nothing brand new; you're only going to see when records are broken. And we're here to just set records and set trends and follow the footsteps that have been shown to us.
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Every free day, every weekend, I am in a recording session. I'm very lucky to have such supportive people around me.
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I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.
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Government cannot do it all. As we work hard to break welfare dependency and get young people ready for the labour market, we need businesses to give them a chance and not just fall back on labour from abroad.
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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
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If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck.
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The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.
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I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater.
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It's nice to know that people are paying attention to you on the other side of the ball, but it's also kind of sad because you feel like you're a man that's being hunted down by some vicious animal. I feel they're going to come after me and do whatever they can to shut down the run, and that makes a difference with me in going out and doing my job.
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The Bible alone is the only authority that can bind the conscience of a person absolutely because it is the only authority that carries with it the intrinsic authority of God Himself.
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When two great saints meet, it's a humbling experience.
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We know from Talmadge Hayer, one of the men who carried out the assassination, who was shot by Ruben X as he tried to flee the Audubon after shooting Malcolm X, we know that Hayer confessed years later to his Imam in prison that there had been a walk-through a week prior to February 21st [1965] at the Audubon Ballroom.
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Today, everybody is always rushing. Designers have to make collections one after the other. Actresses have to make movies one after the other. They have to do all that in order to still be there - to still be out there. So to step away and be absent and to lose yourself completely and to really come back and find yourself again - that's something quite rare.
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I heard many discourses which were good for the soul, but I could not discover in the case of any one of the teachers that his life was worthy of his words.
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There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.
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It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
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It has long been recognized that the problems with alcohol relate not to the use of a bad thing, but to the abuse of a good thing.
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The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
