Charles Fletcher Lummis Quotes
Any fool can write a book and most of them are doing it; but it takes brains to build a house.
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I know what my comfort zones are. But without a back-up, I will never step out of my comfort zone. I don't go bungee jumping; I won't jump from the third floor without a safety net. I don't do such things. That's not my personality type.
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
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I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future.
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My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.
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I feel like I've accomplished everything I could in the dunk contest. It would be hard for me to go back and outdo myself.
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Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth to download all the stuff - the problem would merely shift from availability to distribution.
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Move your lymph system. Lymph is like a sewage system that carries all of the toxins out of your body.
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The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.
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I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.
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I don't try to be sexy, but I do want to look as good as I can.
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I bring a copy of 'Dracula' with me wherever I go, the book. It's my favorite book in the world, it's absolutely incredible. My great-great grandfather was the guy who printed the first edition, so he's the first person to ever put 'Dracula' on the written page.
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I just would like to be challenged. I want to push myself to the limit, and constantly challenge myself and grow as an artist. That's where I want to go. Explore different things, different characters, in film, and just everything!
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A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.
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We should realise that Hollywood is not obliged to write roles for Asian actors.
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It's cool that I'm 20 and am on the cover of the video game. A lot of kids play hockey, and a few get drafted, and only a few get to be on the cover. It's a great feeling.
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I love home. I'll stay up there for days on end, I won't even go down the driveway to look for the mail.
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Neo-conservatives are unlike old conservatives because they are utilitarians, not moralists, and because their aim is the prosperity of post-industrial society, not the recovery of a golden age.
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When occasions present themselves, in which the interests of the people are at variance with their inclinations, it is the duty of the persons whom they have appointed to be the guardians of those interests, to withstand the temporary delusion, in order to give them time and opportunity for more cool and sedate reflection.
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A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking away from that to grow as artists.
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I never watch the dailies. What I usually do is have a look at the rough or final cut, and I just get something from the story. Sometimes I start composing even before the director has shot anything. The dailies don't help me at all.
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And though we do have him before our eyes, masked in the Sacred Host, at mass and Benediction and within our lips receive him at communion, yet to hear of him and dwell on the thought of him will do us good.
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I first fell in love with comedy when I'd visit my granny as a kid. Trips to her house meant staying up late drinking Coca-Cola and watching 'Saturday Night Live'.
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My mom was Sicilian, my dad was Sicilian. Mom was a great cook, but all the women were.
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Any fool can write a book and most of them are doing it; but it takes brains to build a house.
