Edmund Morris Quotes
Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital.
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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
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It's hard to look inside a person to answer a question about why anybody wants to be president. I suppose a combination of ambition, ego, and a real feeling that he could make a difference and could accomplish some things. All you ever had to do for Jimmy Carter was to tell him something was impossible, and he would usually do it.
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Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.
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In our experience, what we have found is the rare commodity is a good management team. And good management teams manage through good and bad cycles and manage to grow their business over a long period of time.
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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To be able to make decisions and see them come to fruition and feel the excitement around them, what it generates within the company, how the artists get motivated - that's the most rewarding part; feeling I can be a catalyst for an artistic experience for our artists and for the public.
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Americans are very easygoing people. If the added attention and great visibility that I have been able to generate can help open doors and expose more Chinese to American values and the American way of life, that is great.
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I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
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I don't particularly like L.A.
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Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.
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If you could go back and change things, you might not be the person you are right now.
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A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.
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Try everything with an open heart, looking to fall in love.
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Religious people are simply following major core practices of happy people. For example, one benefits from the guaranteed social support that can be found in a church, synagogue, or mosque.
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It was one of those cold, clammy, accusing sort of eyes-the kind that makes you reach up to see if your tie is straight: and he looked at me as I were some sort of unnecessary product which Cuthbert the Cat had brought in after a ramble among the local ash-cans.
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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
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Perhaps our own fin-de-siècle decadence takes the form, not of libertarian excess, but of the kind of over-the-top puritanism we see in political correctness and the assorted moral certainties of physical fitness fanatics, New Agers and animal-rights activists.
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I know that many will call this useless work.
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I never felt like dying was a good idea.
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Truth is a great flirt.
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I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing.
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Possession of anything begins in the mind.
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I moved to Chicago in the early 1990s and I studied improvisation there. I learned some rules that I try to apply still today: Listen. Say yes. Live in the moment. Make sure you play with people who have your back. Make big choices early and often. Don't start a scene where two people are talking about jumping out of a plane. Start the scene having already jumped. If you're scared, look into your partner's eyes — you will feel better.
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Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital.
