Walter de La Mare Quotes
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.
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Funny is an attitude.
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I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only thing that unifies Tennessee.
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I am always locked in my design studio.
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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I loved Alessandra Torre's 'Black Lies.'
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A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.
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When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
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There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.
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Reading is a huge part of life.
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Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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I was always really strict on myself about doing everything possible to prepare for competition.
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I don't just rely on my right hand when I'm in the ring. That's the least thing I think about. I think about the preparation I've trained for, and I try to execute. And guys can't stand up to the power. I've been blessed with that, and it's something that can't be taught.
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I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers... clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
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When life hands me lemons I hand them back and pick something else.
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Presenting the Oscars was the most nerve-racking job I have ever done in show business. It's very much a live show: they have comedy writers waiting in the wings, and as you come off between presentations, they hand you an appropriate gag to tell.
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What lovely things Thy hand hath made.
