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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Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
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Arnica is great. I got kicked in the stomach by a horse once, and some adult slapped arnica all over it, and I had no bruise at all to show for my pain.
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It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.
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Sending $300 to your grandma in Cuba doesn't change the dynamic with Castro.
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One positive statement of good is more powerful than 1,000 negative thoughts; and two positive statements of good are more powerful than 10,000 negative thoughts.
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
