Washington Irving Quotes
After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.
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I don't think Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell fear competition from me in their arena.
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Terrorism will spill over if you don't speak up.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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Every year is pressure. You need to put in on yourself to go out and perform.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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Many of us came away from our youth thinking that the story of the Revolution was that the Americans were patriots fighting the oppressive British. It was kind of good versus evil, liberty versus tyranny. When you get into it, you find that it was much more complicated.
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Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
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You shouldn't try to manufacture progress.
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January 14, 2000, was my first time on stage, and I've been hooked ever since. I got discovered nationally in Seattle by the now-defunct HBO Comedy Festival, and that led to an appearance on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' and a path to a professional comedy career.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.
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As a liberal and progressive, I abhor the notion of conflict and bloodshed and very much want to find a diplomatic solution to the Iran nuclear issue.
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I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
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I was just making music in my bedroom. I never wanted to be onstage.
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Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.
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I don't eat when I'm working. If I start to fridge-raid, I'm in trouble.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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The essence of the conservative message should be we want a dynamic nation where anybody with nothing can achieve anything.
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I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page.
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After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.
