Elmer Kelton Quotes
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.
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The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
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His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.
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Starting in music, where I get a chance to connect with the lyrics of a song, I learned so much about performing on stage and connecting to your audience and to what you're singing about. Singing is very emotional. Every song has its own purpose.
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In principle... no government in the world can accept an armed terrorist group, some of them coming from abroad, controlling streets and villages in the name of 'jihad'.
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My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.
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When I was younger, I didn't have the finer things in life. It was around me - the cars, the jewelry and all of that. But I didn't have it. So I did bad things to get what I wanted. Going to jail never crossed my mind. I wish it had. When I was locked up, my mother didn't support me because she couldn't accept who I was and where I was.
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sub specie aeternitatis
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Florentine had grown more or less immune to the charms of spring.
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Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.
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Let no one dare to call another mad who is not himself willing to rank in the same class for every perversion and fault of judgment. Let no one dare aid in punishing another as criminal who is not willing to suffer the penalty due to his own offenses.
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No way that any astronaut worth his salt volunteered for the space program to become a hero. You don't select astronauts who want fame and fortune. You select them because they're the best test pilots in the world, they know it, and it's a personal challenge for them. And the astronauts of today are exactly the same.
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about Ad Reinhardt: ..we supported each other.. .He thought I was a good painter, and I thought he was a good painter.
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I guess what I've learned is that there are no boundaries when it comes to imagination. It's limitless.
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I don't want to bash Bill and Hillary, because they're friends of mine, but I do have a difference of opinion about how to take back the House and the Senate.
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I sing the body electric, The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them, They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them, And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul.
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My room used to be full of Michael Jackson posters.
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A little honest swearin' wipeth away anger and bringeth peace to the soul.
