Elias Lyman Magoon Quotes
An unsanctified temper is a fruitful source of error, and a mighty impediment to truth.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.
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One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.
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You can't hold up a blog; you can hold up a magazine.
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My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.
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Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.
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I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here.
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He bade me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters.
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Because I cannot hope to turn again Consequently I rejoice, having to construct something Upon which to rejoice
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To those who know thee not, no words can paint!And those who know thee, know all words are faint!
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Your art is the Holy Ghost blowing through your soul.
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I constantly look like a miserable bitch.
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I'm sorry about the phone call; and waking you.I know that it is late,But thank you for talking, because I needed to.Some things just can't wait.
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Non-combatant, n. A dead Quaker.
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When I die? Fuck it, I wanna go to hell, 'cause I'm a piece of shit. It ain't hard to fuckin' tell.
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Cooking at home is easier than cooking in the restaurant because you don't have to write a menu or try to please everybody.
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The truth may hurt, but love helps ease the pain.
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Truth lifts the heart, like water refreshes thirst.
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To experience beauty, love, truth and peace, or God, your mind has to be stilled.
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Taking a statement from anyone can be a long process on account of the fact that your average member of the public wouldn’t know the truth if it donned a pink tutu and danced in front of them singing the Chicken Song.
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So long as it doesn't get to the point where you don't remember whose opera you're listening to, I'm willing to experiment.
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An unsanctified temper is a fruitful source of error, and a mighty impediment to truth.
