Ely Callaway Jr. Quotes
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I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.
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I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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That's what you want to do as an older artist - you want to reinvent, but there has to be that vein in there for why people were listening to you before in the first place.
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All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.
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The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me.
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I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.
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Every new development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it be a drainage project in old Greece or a new water system in Peru, means an added use of the automobile.
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Writing changed my life. It has an existential dimension, and that's the same for every writer. Every artist has a moment of awakening, of happening upon an idea that grabs hold of you, regardless of whether you are a painter or a writer.
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Since its founding, Brooks Instrument has been producing devices that measure and control the flow rate of fluids used in manufacturing processes. And for all those years, the company has relied on the standard marketing package for its sector: earnest, information-crammed manuals and brochures.
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If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she'd get the shoes, and then deal with them guys at the bank. I don't mean she wouldn't pay the bank, but the children always came first.
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Grease is the only cure for a hangover.
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Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.
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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies.
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I don't like expeditions where it is a total lottery whether you live or die. You have to keep those sort of good luck cards for rare occasions!
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I think the beautiful thing about the past is that it leads you to the present.
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Markets are, in the end, man-made devices for utilitarian purposes, not a force of nature that we should not try to resist. If they end up serving the interests of only a tiny minority, as is increasingly the case, we have the right - and indeed the duty - to regulate them in the interest of greater social good.
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The interaction between the two matters, but to me, each doesn't really exist independently of the other, so I'm not ever faced with a situation where the tone is wrong for the story, or the story wrong for the tone. They are two parts of one thing.
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There is no back label with a story on a beer can.
