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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When I was 16, I had a really big hit in the K-pop world. It was a hip-hop/R&B/pop song. I kinda strayed from that because of the writers I was hanging out with.
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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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I'm a very competitive person... I've run 12 marathons! I kayaked around Manhattan 29 miles in October! I ran the Berkshire Hathaway 5K! And I want every part of the business to compete - and play to win.
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There are bullfighters who do it just for the money-they are worthless [said Hemingway]. The only one who matters is the bullfighter who feels it, so that if he did it for nothing, he would do it just as well. Same holds true for damn near everyone.
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I was on my own at Wellesley, surrounded by a lot of young women who were motivated and intellectually curious. I started to read because I was required to do so for class, but I soon found myself enjoying the seclusion of the library. I came to see reading as an important way to learn about people, including myself.
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Human talk is a centrifugal function, ever in flight outwards from what is on the talker's mind.
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Obama was heckled by someone who said, 'Don't forget about medical marijuana.' The Secret Service has narrowed the suspects down to everyone in L.A.
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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.
