William Wallace Cook Quotes
Plot, or evolution, is life responding to environment; and not only is this response always in terms of conflict, but the really great struggle, the epic struggle of creation, is the inner fight of the individual whereby the soul builds up character.
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I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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I think that in Mexico, we must change some practices that were built during the 72 years of predominance in Mexico. Former presidents would just hide away, run away or disappear. And I think it's key in a democracy that presidents face people, see eye to eye to citizens and work to keep on contributing to the - to Mexico.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
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Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.
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Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.
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Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.
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I'm only superstitious on the tennis court.
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I'm not a very typical singer.
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In 2013, I started playing Fara Sherazi on 'Homeland.' I love playing her, not just because she's a strong woman, but because for the first time, a Muslim woman is being portrayed on television as a regular person, rather than a cliche or collection of stereotypes.
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Folks should do their own fuckin', then they wouldn't want to listen to a lot of clatfart about another man's.
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I wish my mother could have seen the America we’re going to build together. An America, where if you do your part, you reap the rewards. Where we don’t leave anyone out, or anyone behind. An America where a father can tell his daughter: yes, you can be anything you want to be. Even President of the United States.
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We are Republicans. But we are Americans first. It is as Americans that we express our concern with the growing confusion that threatens the security and stability of our country.
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Having recorded his first album, 'Tapestry,' in 1969, in Berkeley, California, during the student riots, McLean, a native New Yorker, became a kind of weather vane for what he called the 'generation lost in space.'
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I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.
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There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.
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I adore being able to go to the Oscars and know every single person at the party afterwards.
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Of course there's racism in this country, and we have a terrible history of that in this nation.
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God's way of dealing with us is to throw us into situations over our depth, then supply us with the necessary ability to swim.
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American cities are not scaled to the energy diet of the future. They have become too large. They're over-scaled.
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Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government.
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I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?
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Plot, or evolution, is life responding to environment; and not only is this response always in terms of conflict, but the really great struggle, the epic struggle of creation, is the inner fight of the individual whereby the soul builds up character.
