William Wetmore Story Quotes
Oh! faint delicious spring-time violet, Thine odor like a key, Turns noiselessly in memory's wards to let A thought of sorrow free.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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One of my favorite things about what I do for a living is that there is no certainty that, at any hour of any day, I could get a phone call that could change everything. Good or bad. I never know.
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.
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What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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I don't have many friends.
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I would be happy if people just called me an actor.
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How you manage change can make all the difference.
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When you have balance in your life, work becomes an entirely different experience. There is a passion that moves you to a whole new level of fulfillment and gratitude, and that's when you can do your best... for yourself and for others.
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I've seen a lot of 'Show Boats,' but I've never seen the one that thoroughly satisfies me.
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Let me tell you the truth. The truth is what is, and what should be is a fantasy. A terrible, terrible lie that someone gave to the people long ago.
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Good roads, canals, and navigable rivers, by diminishing the expence of carriage, put the remote parts of the country more nearly upon a level with with those of the neighbourhood of the town. They are upon that the greatest of all improvements.
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We’re building what’s called a private cloud for them the C.I.A., … because they don’t want to be on the public cloud.
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I don't think I ever went down that movie star path. I always enjoy taking a 90-degree turn from the last thing I did.
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The smell of cigars reminds me of someone I used to know, and it just always brings me back. I love it; I find something very comforting about it.
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'The Sopranos' is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, bad jokes - infantile, adolescent stuff, but it makes me laugh.
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As I said, I began losing confidence in my instincts, which is tough and very bad for an instinctive person.
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Man believes and lives.
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Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
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Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.
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The government of Sudan, employing a back channel direct from its president to the Central Intelligence Agency, offered in the early spring of 1996 to arrest Osama bin Laden and place him in Saudi custody, according to officials and former officials in all three countries.
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I had a clear idea about what time is till I was asked to explain it and ceased to understand it altogether as soon as I began explaining it.
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Oh! faint delicious spring-time violet, Thine odor like a key, Turns noiselessly in memory's wards to let A thought of sorrow free.
