Catullus (Gaius Valerius Catullus) Quotes
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For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.
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My first workshop was in Rome, and that was the start of House of Waris. In a little magical atelier, a goldsmith, his apprentice, his stone setter - and that was where it began.
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A lot of times, we look at jazz in eras. How can we not keep those eras separate and think of the language as one complete continuum? It's all interrelated, and it's all evolutionary.
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But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy.
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I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.
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An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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I've never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion.
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The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
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A good ground rule for writing in any genre is, start with a form, then undermine its confidence in itself. Ask what it's afraid of, what it's trying to hide - then write that.
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You have to be really careful with what you put out on social media and who you're talking to online.
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Jerry Springer' is just kind of the chubby, redneck version of throwing Christians to the lions.
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Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
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The borderline between normal and schizophrenic people is broad and nearly imperceptible.
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Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It's the way in which we ourselves grow and develop.
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Living in New York City, I am reminded by the Statue of Liberty that the United States of America has always welcomed those yearning to breathe free and seek a better life.
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So organic farming practices are something that, to me, are interlinked with the idea of using biodiesel.
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I've been writing lullabies since the beginning. I kind of did it for myself to help myself fall asleep when I really worried, like when I was homeless and I'd fall asleep in my car.
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Food's delicate. You have to handle it with finesse. You can't just be a big ogre.
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I don't think you'd call me a traditionalist. But you can say I have an old soul, because I grew up listening to Conway Twitty and Hank Williams.
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If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is of no more authority than any other uninspired volume, how is it that the book is what it is?
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Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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I didn't rebel as a child. I missed that angry teenager thing.
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To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?
