Blaine Pardoe Quotes
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I want to thank the many Missourians who have reached out to me and asked me to consider running for the United States Senate.
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
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My greatest regret is selling my company.
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Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
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Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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People had an idea of what R&B artists or pop artists usually say, which was like, 'Talk about sex, talk about partying, and be positive; don't be too much of a downer.'
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The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.
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When I first met my wife, I really just settled down quite a bit and I started living a much cleaner lifestyle. I was able to concentrate on things that I neglected in the past a little more and I was spending a lot more time at home than I normally would.
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I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.
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I first went to India because of my interest in yoga, hoping to go to the Iyengar Centre in Pune for a while. That didn't work out, but I ended up on a beach in Goa, writing.
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It must be terribly lonely to be a king instead of a man.
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People would tell us, 'I love your company, but I want to go to Chicago or Boston or New York.'
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I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement.
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I used to swallow people's energies, and then I learned, as I got older, that I'm too sensitive, and I had to stop doing that. Now I don't take as much in.
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I don't know if I'm able to play a cop for the rest of my life.
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I like to talk on the cell when I do interviews. That way, I double my chances of getting brain cancer: from the cell phone, and from the questions.
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I am very sorry to say that I rejoiced when I once more perceived the towers of Windsor behind me.
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We can do it better, more consistently, and in the end, it will cost us less because the students that we produce will be superior to those without technology experience.
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Love is the impulse which directs the world, And all things know it and obey its power. Man, in the maelstrom of his passions whirled; The bee that takes the pollen to the flower; The earth, uplifting her bare, pulsing breast To fervent kisses of the amorous sun;-- Each but obeys creative Love's behest, Which everywhere instinctively is done.
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You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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We are all capable of change and growth; we just need to know where to begin.
