Emily Susan Rapp Quotes
Nonfiction ties your hands a bit, and just like writing poetry in rhyme, it can force you to make more brutal decisions in terms of word choice, plot, etc.
Quotes to Explore
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Hizbullah is not a militia.
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Life is too short to blend in.
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I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.
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Washington worked very hard to create his legacy. Even before the War of Independence was over, he was assembling his papers and making sure they were going to be in a state of preservation that would represent as best he could the official side of what occurred during the Revolution.
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Master of the universe is every man's potential insight, cosmic potential.
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Most music careers slowly but surely go down.
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The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.
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I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.
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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
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I just don't think I've ever been comfortable at public functions and selling myself as an entity.
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If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
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Palestinians have had to live for a long time with the fact that Israelis had power over them in their everyday lives.
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Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.
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Better were it to be unborn than ill-bred.
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It's fun to be sarcastic, but now I'm able to express myself in a way that's much more sincere.
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The very first stock I bought right out of college was Berkshire Hathaway.
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There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
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It is my job to step into different characters.
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But all that having been said, you can't, in a city of a million people like Karbala, or 5 million like Baghdad, you can't be in all places at all times.
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It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that.
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At the same time, I must personally say that I do question the sincerity and nonviolent intentions of some civil rights leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Mr. James Farmer, and others, who are known to have left wing associations.
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I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year, but I used the wrong paper. See, the paper I used said 'Happy Birthday' on it. I didn't want to waste it so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it.
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Laughter is grace in its gaseous form.
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Nonfiction ties your hands a bit, and just like writing poetry in rhyme, it can force you to make more brutal decisions in terms of word choice, plot, etc.
