Edward Joseph Young Quotes
When human glory rises high As human glory can; When though the king is truly great, Still greater is the man.
Quotes to Explore
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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Interviews make me so nervous - I can't get a sentence out of my mouth.
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The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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There are a bunch of places to stay in Des Moines, but I'd suggest finding a place on the west side of town. It's a great urban area that has a lot to offer tourists.
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The more that Japanese players go to the big leagues to play and succeed, the more that will serve to inspire young kids in Japan to want to become baseball players when they grow up.
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The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
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The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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I'm not sure if I want to continue to work when I have kids.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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My books cover many aspects of daily life through which your children will recognize their own relationships in their families and communities.
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The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.
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I didn't feel the Depression at all. I always had a pocketful of money.
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When we have sealed the outer border and thus stopped the illegal migration, we can talk about any solution.
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My first YA novel, not many people have read. It's a fickle business. There's a degree of timing and luck involved.
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Lovers should also have their days off.
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When you're just like everybody else, you've nothing to offer other than your conformity.
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Dinosaurs are built just like birds - they can squat down, they can get up. Mammals, when we lay down, we throw our legs out to the sides - birds cannot do that. Dinosaurs could not do that either.
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I like what Oliver Lakes does on the saxophone. The saxophone comes pretty close to the sound of the human voice and when Oliver plays with other sax players, it's like a dialogue.
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To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest blessings of human beings. And yet people fear it as if they knew for certain it is the greatest evil.
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All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.
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I'm going to scream this from the mountain top, there's no such thing as 'a curry.' There's six kazillion different kinds of curry. When someone asks how to make chicken curry, I have to ask 'Which one?'
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When human glory rises high As human glory can; When though the king is truly great, Still greater is the man.
