Edgar Fawcett Quotes
We say of the oak, How grand of girth! Of the willow we say, How slender! And yet to the soft grass clothing the earth How slight is the praise we render.
Quotes to Explore
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It's astounding the degree to which these communities are intermarried. Iraq is a crazy quilt of ethnicities and religious sects.
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
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I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.
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If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.
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You can tell all our songs come from us and from our artists, the people we write with and travel with.
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I always wanted to tell the story of how Pearl Jam is the story of lightning striking twice. As well as being the flipside of the classic rock tale where great promise ends in tragedy. This is where tragedy begins great promise.
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I would have loved to have a role in the HBO series 'Deadwood.' It was Shakespeare in the Old West.
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We discover and invent new ways of finding out the same old things.
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It's very hard for someone who makes $1,000 a year or some who makes less than $1 a day to care about the environment.
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Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied.
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Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. Sometimes you run over a drunk who's lain down and fallen asleep on the warm pavement. I mean, do you keep going, or what?
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Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.
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My only fault is that I don't realize how great I really am.
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The right question is usually more important than the right answer.
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In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.
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The history of humanity is not a hotel where someone can rent a room whenever it suits him; nor is it a vehicle which we board or get out of at random. Our past will be for us a burden beneath which we can only collapse for as long as we refuse to understand the present and fight for a better future. Only then — but from that moment on — will the burden become a blessing, that is, a weapon in the battle for freedom.
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It is true that I receive a lot of praise and that is flattering. But I try not to let it affect me.
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Actors are observers. They're trying to have an understanding of human sensibility. And how do you have that accurate observation if you regard yourself as someone of great importance? When you're the one constantly being observed, because they view you as a celebrity? It's all wrong.
