William Macneile Dixon Quotes
Our business is not to solve problems beyond our mortal powers, but to see to it that our thoughts are not unworthy of the great theme.
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Being evil is easy.
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When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.
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We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex. I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
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While I now own more guns than the 82nd Airborne, my first gun is still the most important gun I've ever owned.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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It's the face and the body and the thing that we hide inside that can keep us from the world, but my voice is my voice.
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People sometimes wear shirts that are really boxy, and you can see them over the top of their trousers, which doesn't look right to me.
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If you're writing a thriller, mystery, Western or adventure-driven book, you'd better keep things moving rapidly for the reader. Quick pacing is vital in certain genres. It hooks readers, creates tension, deepens the drama, and speeds things along.
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I have a good mind but I don't like to bore anyone with it.
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The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'
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Most of the people who live in Washington come from other places and you can learn something from them.
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Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.
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No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
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The male corporate model is built on a man's greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children.
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I experienced firsthand what it means to be poor, what it means to go hungry, and that, I think, may be the reason, the root cause of why I'm able to work so hard, even these days.
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Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.
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Between the desireAnd the spasmBetween the potencyAnd the existenceBetween the essenceAnd the descentFalls the Shadow .
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If I hadn't have had music in my life, it's quite possible I could be in here. Or nor even in here, be dead - and I'd much rather be alive.
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It can get a little costly if you try and leave it until then to write songs. But you're writing all the time. You're collecting songs. I've had songs that have been collected over a two-year period for my next record.
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Really, it's not harder to train for them because once baseball starts you play everyday almost.
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Our business is not to solve problems beyond our mortal powers, but to see to it that our thoughts are not unworthy of the great theme.
