Walter de La Mare Quotes
After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts - like a Chinese nest of boxes - oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front - in our ancestors, back and back until.
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.
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All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.
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Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
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It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.
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A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.
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I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
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One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.
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We have more to learn today from the spectacle of a great man at a great moment than from any number of monographs on ancient wage levels.
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Far too often we see attention paid to the firearm and not the criminal.
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If we're going to have better choices for women, we've got to have better choices for men.
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The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them.
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After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts - like a Chinese nest of boxes - oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front - in our ancestors, back and back until.
