Edward Joseph Young Quotes
On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
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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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What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
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Odd Future's like a network as opposed to like a rap group.
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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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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
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The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
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Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, anymore than anything else important in life can be proved.
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Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.
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The Constitution doesn't belong to a bunch of judges and lawyers. It belongs to you.
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Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.
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Eat it, lick it, snort it, fuck it!
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I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job.
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I was obsessed with Nancy Drew growing up - I couldn't get enough.
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If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.
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I am an optimist even though I am told everything I do is negative and cynical.
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If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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It's very important to be able to distinguish the actors from the characters they play.
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Even in our deep ocean, there are ecosystems at work with no light whatsoever down in the deepest portions of the oceanic abyss.
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At first, when 'Boxer' came out, people were a little let down, and we worried that it might be the end for us. But then it began to grow on people. 'Boxer' bought us our creative freedom.
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It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.
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I'm the ugly sister. I'm the fat one. I'm the transvestite. I have had those mean things said about me at least twice a day for the last five years. It's horrible, you know? But I can brush that stuff off.
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I guess the important thing for young writers is to read.
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On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
