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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'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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The fire trucks are out, there are thousands of people in the streets. You have a choice. You can have this, or you let Negroes eat at the lunch counters.
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I look at singing and acting as one career, and I love the chance to do both in the same project. I need to do both. When I'm doing one, I miss the other.
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The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.
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People think once you get famous and rich you move out of the public sphere and you have nothing left to write about. I've heard that - Bruce Springsteen was this real street boy, now he's got this big house. How does that compute? If you don't look at the material side of someone's life, if you look at more the emotional side, there's always a wealth of stuff to write about.
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I was a bouncer for ten years in New York City.
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There's no chance of cheering him up, sir. He likes being miserable, so he does, and the bastard will get over it.
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An autocrat’s a ruler that does what th’ people wants an’ takes th’ blame f’r it.
