Edward Rowland Sill Quotes
Earth bears no balsams for mistakes; Men crown the knave, and scourge the tool That did his will: but thou, O Lord, Be merciful to me, a fool.
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In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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I like not to feel that all my eggs are in one basket, or I get nervous.
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I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it.
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I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.
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My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.
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What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants to avoid.
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A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.
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I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.
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I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.
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I never go perform somewhere alone. I've done that since day one. I've always taken other comics with me.
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The tours are campaigns.
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Every moment in our lives is a miracle we should enjoy instead of ignoring.
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Hydrogen selenide, I decided, was perhaps the worst smell in the world. But hydrogen telluride came close, was also a smell from hell. An up-to-date hell, I decided, would have not just rivers of fiery brimstone, but lakes of boiling selenium and tellurium, too.
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It's Friday the 13th. my favorite holiday. Keep it weird.
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We are going to seek to improve the lives of our people on an ongoing basis, and since 1994, we have done precisely that.
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Every time you write a song, you're looking for some sort of perfection, and you never quite reach it. You're always looking for that extra missing piece.
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God, the king of artists, was clumsy.
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'Politico Magazine' listed me among the top 50 'thinkers, doers and visionaries transforming American politics' for my work in coalitions advancing net neutrality.
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My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job.
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No one plays this or any game perfectly. It's the guy who recovers from his mistakes who wins.
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But we shall not know the world by looking at it; we know it by looking at the hovering fly.
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Earth bears no balsams for mistakes; Men crown the knave, and scourge the tool That did his will: but thou, O Lord, Be merciful to me, a fool.
