Edmund Morris Quotes
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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Novels are longer than life.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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To say that Jimmy Carter does not understand politics or is not a good politician denies the phenomenon by which he got to the White House. He is without question the best politician, when he's working at it, of anybody I have ever seen.
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In order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.
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I'm always looking to do things that are really different from each other.
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Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
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I love 'Glee.'
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The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.
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People are saying, 'Big Data is the new oil.'
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If principles don't determine what you are going to pass or do, then power will.
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We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
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I don't think you can look at my history and say they love me to death in Silicon Valley.
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I used to think the secret to a happy ending was to bring down the curtain at the exact right time. A moment after happiness, then everything's all wrong, again.
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If you'd got a very conservative Republican in power, they might not be happy about some of the scientific research going on, because it conflicts with their fundamental beliefs.
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I believe if you start a business with the intent of making it huge, you're already prioritizing the wrong thing. Size is important, but it's a byproduct of a whole bunch of other things that are worth way more of your mental energy - customers, service, quality.
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Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success.
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Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable-and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come.
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The gazing crowd, of glittering State afraid, Adore the Power their coward meanness made; In war's short intervals, while regal shows Still blind their reason and insult their woes.
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The time has come to educate people, to cease all quarrels in the name of religion, culture, countries, different political or economic systems. Fighting is useless. Suicide.
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Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government.
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A poet can do much more for his country than the proprietor of a nail factory.
