Carl Sandburg Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.
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I do a lot of speaking about energy and environment. But that's more a second job than a hobby. Hobby-wise, I love the outdoors - hiking, biking, kayaking, swimming, scuba diving. Because I spend almost all of my life in front of a screen, time in nature is especially important, I think.
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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I hope our people hold tight to the notion that we do not have to be a fear-ridden country focused on restrictions, but rather that we remain the land of the free and home of the brave.
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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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I'm not the girl for super high fashion because I don't have the right body. When I want to get dressed up, I'm a Roberto Cavalli girl.
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One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.
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I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents' farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.
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Change is inevitable, and you can't stop that change. You say, 'Wait, stop,' and it just drives right over you.
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My mom could be pretty strict.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
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I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers - I love it.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
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I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.
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I am now writing a book called 'Far Enough,' very loosely based on my childhood. This is difficult because it forces me to remember people I loved who are gone.
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There are a lot of idiots in this country, and they deserve representation as much as the next man.
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I know I should feel anger at my father for certain things. But since he died when I was 11, I never got to that point.
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While the Taliban connives with foreign terrorists, the Afghan people suffer from poverty, drought and hunger.
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This story does not have a happy ending; they almost never do. The only happy stories you will ever hear are told by men—they spin their lies, trying to convince themselves that they cause no devastation, and that the hearts they break were never worth much to begin with.
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
