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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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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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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We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.
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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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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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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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I don't think there could've been a pitch as crass as Trump's 'I can fix America because I'm rich' without that groundwork laid by Davos and the Clinton Global Initiative.
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My well-discussed 'paranoia' urges me to believe that some tiny segment of the NSA's parsing algorithm is finely tuned to my voice.
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I think the hedge-fund industry has taken a reputational turn for the worse, this dog-eat-dog stuff. I'm not just talking about Herbalife or J. C. Penney, but in other situations where the media really focuses on who's long and who's short. I don't think it's a good thing for the industry.
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God's plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God's method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.
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Ours is a stable country. Ours is a sensible country. And ours is a fundamentally decent country.
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A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
