Carl Sandburg Quotes
I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.
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I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.
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There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it.
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Middle school was probably my hardest time. I was trying to fit in for so long, until about junior year of high school when I realized that trying to fit into this one image of perfection was never going to make me happy.
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When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
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There was a strange atmosphere on the set because we were filming in this large house, which was used for troubled children. You'd go in and find walls had been burnt down. The building was charged with this history and it stayed with us throughout the filming.
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Certainly by the time I was in seventh grade, I knew I had to have a long education if I wanted to become an astronomer, but I figured I'd try it, and if I didn't get far enough, I could always end up teaching in high school or math or physics.
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With 'Tron,' we had so many crew members around and a stage full of special effects people that know exactly what has to be done in the situations. You're on a stage in sets the whole time.
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It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that the Eurozone is not an optimum currency area, as defined in economic theory.
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I had to let my ego go a long time ago.
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In the long run, we need to build a leadership force of people. We have a whole strategy around not only providing folks with the foundational experience during their two years with us, but also then accelerating their leadership in ways that is strategic for the broader education reform movement.
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Dan Henderson has been a fighter for a long time, and he's been a champion in many different organizations.
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Planning a garden, park, building, or city shouldn't be done in an office.
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Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.
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We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future atrocities.
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I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
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You know in the West they support realistic forces.
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I have always argued that newspapers should not have any civic purpose beyond telling readers what is happening... A reporter who doesn't quickly tell readers what they most want to know - the score - won't last long. Better he should teach political science.
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The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.
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You write about what you know.
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The concept of surveillance is ingrained in our beings. God was the original surveillance camera.
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The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.
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If there is a horrific attack on this country like 9/11, the American people will demand we go to war and settle accounts with those who did it. But America's appetite for intervention, for nation building, for democracy crusades, is fully sated.
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At the end of the day, I'm a human being.
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I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.
