Edmund Morris Quotes
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Claiming to 'fight for small business' is often used as a political tool in Washington D.C., but it is actually the policies behind that battle cry that small firms care about.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.
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Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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Christmas cookies can't help but be retro - they are memory first, sugar-flour-egg-redhot-gumdrop-sparkle reality second.
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I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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New synthetic substances - steel, concrete, glass - are actively superseding the traditional raw materials of construction.
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Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.
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I haven't even graduated from high school yet - and I've realised in the last four years, with all the travelling I've done and all of the movies I've made, that the world is my classroom. I've experienced things I don't know you can necessarily get from reading a history book.
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Some people try to cyber bully me; they try to get to me with words, but that doesn't really work.
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I am Afrikaans. It wasn't ever something that I thought about.
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That's the best thing that classic can do, is it can return to us from our own past to give us lessons about the future, and it can give us a sense of both who we were and who we could become.
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I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.
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Whatever you want to call it, they have all these names for these coverages, I've seen them. Like those linemen coming out to jam me on the line of scrimmage. A lot of crazy stuff.
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Let us take refuge from this world. You can do this in spirit, even if you are kept here in the body. You can at the same time be here and present to the Lord. Your soul must hold fast to him, you must follow after him in your thoughts, you must tread his ways by faith, not in outward show.
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'Oh, everybody exploits somebody,' says Howard, 'in this social order it's part of the human lot.'
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You can get anything you want at Alice's RestaurantYou can get anything you want at Alice's RestaurantWalk right in, it's around the backJust a half a mile from the railroad trackYou can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant
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Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman-a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting.
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I always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why I'm writing and what I want to do with it. Shutting out the voices is difficult but it's been good for me.
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People seem to think I'm Satan.
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I don’t like the Bushes, I love the Bushes. They’re wonderful people. They’re the most loyal friends. There’s nothing I wouldn’t do for them.
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The club scene is terrible.
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An autocrat’s a ruler that does what th’ people wants an’ takes th’ blame f’r it.
