Nikolaus Lenau Quotes
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You should never say 'D'Brickashaw' and 'bust' in the same sentence. You should never even think that. It should be D'Brickashaw, Pro Bowl, D'Brickashaw, Jets, Super Bowl.
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I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.
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Fallout shelters are like bell-bottoms. They've gone in and out of favor.
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We are evolving as one species - not only as Americans, Syrians, Russians, Chinese, and jihadists. We cannot attack one without inflicting forms of violence and destruction upon ourselves. This is our new reality.
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Being away from home for six months of the year and seeing your kids grow up on Skype all that time - I think I saw Molly walk for the first time on Skype. That's not good.
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My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.
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I read on the Internet that I was dead.
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I'm so appreciative that people have begun to recognize my work in a way where it can afford me more opportunities.
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Athletes at all ages are bigger and stronger than ever before. And they are being encouraged - sometimes even incentivized, as we recently learned was the case on at least one National Football League team - to play to injure.
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Just to be remembered is good enough for me. Lots of people are forgotten.
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I write my music.
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When I hear from people who are struggling to put food on the table, I understand because I've been there.
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If men got pregnant, there would be safe, reliable methods of birth control. They'd be inexpensive, too.
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A love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could any way afford it.
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Conservative policies have on the whole worked - insofar as any set of policies can be said to 'work' in the real world. Conservatives of the Reagan-Bush-Gingrich-Bush years have a fair amount to be proud of.
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I was a spiritual kid.
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To me, it's not the end of the world if I end up not being with someone. I love romance. I love sex. I love men's company, but I don't feel I have to be married. Men are a wonderful part of life, like chocolate. But my life goes on whether they're there or not.
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I am very traditional, and I am the disciplinarian.
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What has happened at Guantanamo Bay... does not represent the will of the American people. I'm embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.
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...the greater part or my spring happiness is due to the scent of the wet earth and young leaves. I am always happy out of doors be it understood, for indoors there are servants and furniture, but in quite different ways, and my spring happiness bears no resemblance to my summer or autumn happiness, though it is not more intense, and there were days last winter when I danced for sheer joy out in my frost-bound garden in spite of my years and children. But I did it behind a bush, having a due regard for the decencies.
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I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.
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We didn't have electricity when I was a kid. We had to watch TV by candlelight. No, that's a silly joke.
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I don't talk about myself in the third person, and I laugh at people who do.
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Many search for happiness as we look for a hate we wear on our heads.
