Edmund Clowney Quotes
People who do not worship are swept into a vast restlessness, epidemic in the world, with no steady direction and no sustaining purpose.
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Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.
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I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.
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It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
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One interesting thing about jazz, or art in general, but jazz especially is such an individual art form in the sense that improvisation is such a big part of it, so it feels like it should be less soldiers in an army and more like free spirits melding. And yet, big band jazz has a real military side to it.
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I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.
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Publishing is a business, and I completely understand it. But when you don't have to depend on writing for your identity or your income, you can do whatever you want.
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God is a talking God, and thus you must come to wrestle with him. You must wrestle with what he said.
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In art, S. Bridget is usually represented with her perpetual flame as a symbol, sometimes with a column of fire, said to have been seen above her head when she took the veil.
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America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Therefore those with the power to define what qualifies as knowledge - to determine what are the accepted facts - wield the greatest social and political power.
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I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs.
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Chances are if I am the one to cosign people, they will become a big part of the industry.
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The doughy-faced woman has been forced to sit on the sidelines of culture for too long, and it's now time for us to stand up with our big round faces like the moon and say we have things to say, too. We have a round-faced agenda we want to push.
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criticizing the Cambridge School of criticism, e.g. John Middleton Murry and Herbert Read, 'Fine Writing,' pp. 306-307
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The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.
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The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.
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My mom was on a soap opera for 40 years, so I know about love and romance.
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I'm happy to be helping people that are passionate about empowering parents for student learning.
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Here's what's nice about life: Sometimes you have ideas and for the most part, they're not good ones. And then you'll follow through with a handful of them and sometimes you'll be pretty disappointed. And then other times you'll follow through and you'll go, 'You know what? It's nice to be right.'
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People who do not worship are swept into a vast restlessness, epidemic in the world, with no steady direction and no sustaining purpose.
