Carl Sandburg Quotes
Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work - I am the grass; I cover all. And pile them high at Gettysburg And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun. Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor: What place is this? Where are we now?
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Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
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Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.
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Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.
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Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
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You have to recognize at some point that even though you have the passion and creative level to be able to do something, you might have to do a lot of prep. Sometimes you just can't do it as quickly as you want to do it.
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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I need to meet people to be able to write.
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We're fortunate enough to live on a planet that's bathed in thousands of times more energy than we use and that's stocked with thousands of times more water, raw materials, and even food-growing potential than we need.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.
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The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.
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You never get every job you want.
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I don't talk in ifs.
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When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.
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One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.
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When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer.
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Knowing not to have illusions is absolutely necessary in order to have dreams.
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Right now we are not on a plane list for the next couple of days so that gives us the opportunity to focus on the people who are here.
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Beneath words and logic are emotional connections that largely direct how we use our words and logic.
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Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.
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Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work - I am the grass; I cover all. And pile them high at Gettysburg And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun. Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor: What place is this? Where are we now?
