Claude A. Swanson (Claude Augustus Swanson) Quotes
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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
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German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.
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I had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I don't know any racism against the Eskimos. To have a racist feeling, there must be an other who is slightly different from us - but is living close to us.
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You know, I love America. It's such a positive country.
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Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again.
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When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people.
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John Kitzhaber was a visionary leader for Oregon.
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I think songwriting was the biggest way that I found my identity.
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Be in love with your life every detail of it
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In excluding me from the shadow cabinet, Margaret Thatcher has chosen what I believe to be the only wholly honest solution and one which I accept and welcome.
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By the immediate preservation of eggs for home consumption through the use of water glass or lime water, larger supplies of fresh eggs may be made available for marketing later in the season, when production is less and prices higher.
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If somebody pisses me off and I understand it ain't personal then I'll go to another place and I'll meditate.
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It will eventually be discovered that the more you sleep, the healthier you are. Which means you'll really be at your healthiest when you pass away.
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I belong to the Richmond Concert Society, who put on very good concerts.
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One of the most talented, smartest people happens to be my wife, so I can get great advice from her. She obviously knows me incredibly well and what I'm going through. I don't know that I've been as helpful to her as she has been to me.
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I think the best directors rarely lose their temper.
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Every time I've done a fund raiser, I've been blown away by the amount of money and the generosity that our fans have.
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The medical profession is - and knows itself to be - endemically conservative and conformist.
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Support music every day because there isn’t a day music won’t be there for you!
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It feels like I'm in a swimming pool, and I am constantly trying to stay above water. Sometimes I feel like I'm slipping, and you try to come up for air, and that's how it is when looking for the next role.
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I was never a doodler. I had never felt a drive to draw... Actually when I was a kid, I really hated art classes. My father was a kind of a Sunday painter and he liked to draw and do water colors. So, I would bring him my assignment and he would do them for me, because it was easy for him to do.
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When the water reaches the upper level, follow the rats.
