Edmund Fuller Quotes
With all respect to Mr. Jefferson, I would put the pursuit of wisdom ahead of the pursuit of happiness.
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The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something.
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Every good movie I watch, the hero becomes my favourite. I start blushing every time a hero romances a heroine.
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I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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Part of America's greatness is its willingness to care for those who are truly in need. But those who defraud the system take money and resources away not only from American taxpayers but also from those who truly need help.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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It's an evolution. The same team doesn't always dominate, and it goes in cycles.
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I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.
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I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
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Design is a tool that either allows us to create new markets or disrupt existing ones.
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There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
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I'm always flattered when someone thinks of me as a potential commissioner of baseball.
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The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible.
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I was never for Richard Nixon until Watergate.
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Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
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I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven.
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The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeletons of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.
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What is of value is that a particular photographer sees the subject differently than I do. A good picture must be a completely individual expression which intrigues the viewer and forces him to think.
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My mother often mailed me articles from 'Reader's Digest' about advances in DNA chemistry. No matter how I tried to explain it to her, she never grasped the concept that I could have been writing those articles, that something I had invented made most of those DNA discoveries possible.
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In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his house you played PlayStation, at your house you played Xbox. Now that it's online, all those early buyers who... you want to play with, they've got their reputation online of who they are and how good they are at these games.
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Network presidents love to take shots at each other, but they've never been so vocal as they were this summer.
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With all respect to Mr. Jefferson, I would put the pursuit of wisdom ahead of the pursuit of happiness.
