Ed Zern Quotes
The chief difference between big-game fishing and weightlifting is that weightlifters never clutter up their library walls with stuffed barbells.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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Writing can't be too calculated. My best writing is when I set it aside, move on. It's not when I'm crafting a sentence, thinking about what word should follow another.
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The thing with being on a series that runs that long is that the writers run out of things to do.
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Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.
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I have a saying. 'Never judge a book by its cover'. I say that because I don't even know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.
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If you think about what folks have been doing for 20 or 30 years, they have been bottling frustration and resentment that the political elites don't understand them, that the political elites don't care about them, that the political elites judge them in various ways. All Donald Trump does is provide the opposite of those things.
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I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed.
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When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
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Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.
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Robert Fisk is my hero. In America, they think he's a terrorist.
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If I were to leave the U.S., I'd live in England. But I'd never leave the U.S. I own a 400-acre farm in Macon, Georgia. I raise cattle and hogs. I own horses, too. I love horses as much as singing. I like to hunt on horseback.
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Marx and Engels never talked about murdering the bourgeois. According to the old bourgeois concept, the judges were the ones who judged, and the executioners were the ones who executed.
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The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve, he made 'em both a little bit naive.
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I don't think anything can touch the expressive range of the guitar.
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A good project but a poor director will always make a mediocre film, but an average script and good director can make a good film, as he will put in everything to make the film look good.
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What happens to George Clooney and Bruce Willis is great, but I can't gauge my career by anyone else's.
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Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them.
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Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.
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The difference between an admirer and a follower still remains, no matter where you are. The admirer never makes any true sacrifices. He always plays it safe. Though in words, phrases, songs, he is inexhaustible about how highly he prizes Christ, he renounces nothing, gives up nothing, will not reconstruct his life, will not be what he admires, and will not let his life express what it is he supposedly admires.
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When I figured out how to work my grill, it was quite a moment. I discovered that summer is a completely different experience when you know how to grill.
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I complacently accepted the social order in which I was brought up. I probably would have continued in my complacency if the happynecessity of self-support had not fallen to my lot; if self-support had not deepened and widened my contacts and my experience.
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The chief difference between big-game fishing and weightlifting is that weightlifters never clutter up their library walls with stuffed barbells.
