Charles Fried Quotes
It's a big tree, but it has ramified and exfoliated, ... would be an enormous disruption.
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Because we always have to wear a uniform to compete, my teammates and I look the exact same. My belt is the only accessory that I get to choose. I usually wear a yellow cloth belt with cherries or a leather belt with a beautiful tree buckle that I got at a thrift store.
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My dad grew up with an avocado tree in his backyard. My entire family, my wife and daughters, they love avocado. I may well be allergic. It makes me physically sick.
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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
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Whenever I see a tree that is climbable, it must be climbed. Sometimes when I'm on a run, I'll just run up a tree, jump on a branch and swing off. My favorite tree, in Saratoga, gets me a good 75 feet up.
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Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
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You must not lean on a tree on Sabbath, if the tree might be dependent on you for support.
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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
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That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree. And so I got an indigenous tree, called Nandi flame, it has this beautiful red flowers. When it is in flower it is like it is in flame.
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The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.
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'Make your plate look like a Christmas tree,' I tell people, 'mostly green with splashes of other bright colors.'
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I am a metrosexual and into male grooming - I moisturise, I exfoliate.
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Eyes I dare not meet in dreamsIn death's dream kingdom´These do not appear:There, the eyes areSunlight on a broken columnThere, is a tree swingingAnd voices areIn the wind's singingMore distant and more solemnThan a fading star.
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If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.
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willow of crystal, a poplar of water, a pillar of fountain by the wind drawn over, tree that is firmly rooted and that dances, turning course of a river that goes curving, advances and retreats, goes roundabout, arriving forever:
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The natural born reason we didn't git no yew-ranium when we crosses the li'l yew tree and the gee-ranium is on account of cause we didn't have no geiger counter.
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The tree looks like a dog, barking at heaven.
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We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight.
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How the fuck you feed a tree?...What...you put a ham sandwich on the tree?
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I have so many children. Half of mine are the ones that just must climb the tree, must climb the mountain, must get dirty, must jump off, flip into the pool sideways because it's just who they are. So you try to give them as much guidance and prepare them but they are who they are.
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I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
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Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work.
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A lot of financial technology is foolhardy. Saying, 'We're going to kill banks. We're going to disrupt everything,' ignores some realities.
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Forty-five percent of Iraqi citizens think it is morally okay to attack American troops.
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It's a big tree, but it has ramified and exfoliated, ... would be an enormous disruption.
