Washington Irving Quotes
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We went from journalism, in newspapers that gets heavily edited, to blogs, where you can express your opinions, to tweeting, where you can say anything, and it gets repeated and becomes fact when it isn't. It's something the entire world is going to have to come to grips with.
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When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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The leader of the market today may not necessarily be the leader tomorrow.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.
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I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.
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Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.
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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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I call it the 'House of Reprehensibles.' We don't have any real political resistance to this growth of the domestic state across the board. So I'm much more focused on that than on the Patriot Act, which is a real effort, however inept, to deal with a real problem.
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I did all sorts of jobs after drama school - working in a bar, as a teaching assistant. I probably learned as much from them as I did at drama school.
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Mankind is not special by virtue of our address in the universe, or what spins around us, or because life originated here. Slowly, but surely, we've been compelled to renounce the comfort of these beliefs.
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Those who have not sown anything during their responsible life will have nothing to reap in the future.
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A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person. If this person makes you feel good, then they're a person to be around; if they don't, they're not. Being in a band is different. The group is the more important part, and you have to kind of shift the way you look at life when you're in a group of people that you work with.
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I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.
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A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
