Carl Sandburg Quotes
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Homosexuals are not welcome in the Gambia.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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Brands like Starbucks came along and talked about their brand as itself being a community, the idea that Starbucks is what they like to call a 'third place,' which is not their idea; it's the idea of basic citizenry needing a place that is not work, that is not home, where citizens gather.
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If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.
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What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
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They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests.
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I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there.
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I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!
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I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.
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I can take an opinion, but I don't like when you try and spew hate and contaminate the way other people think. I feel like I'm one of the people that's always made music for the common man. That's why I don't really live my life the way I could. I don't stunt as much as I could stunt, 'cause that's not who my music is for.
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I think the next president needs to lead on cultural issues and experience, particularly on foreign policy.
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Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.
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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
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Everything I say is true.
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There is nothing more exciting than having a life devoted to fundamental knowledge and to contributing to advance the borders of knowledge.
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Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
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My friends started having children after college, while I was pursuing this crazy acting career and living hand to mouth. Plus, all my boyfriends were artists struggling to make a living. Having kids didn't make any sense - why would I take on more of a financial burden when I couldn't even afford a dog?
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My world is better. Why would I want to waste my time playing golf? I can get up in the morning and be in this whole other world. I love my life.
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Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
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People are always trading their excess for somebody else's excess. One country has a lot of aluminum so they trade aluminum for sugar. It's the law of supply and demand.
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Even a vortex is a vortex in something. You can't have a whirlpool without water; and you can't have a vortex without gas, or molecules or atoms or ions or electrons or something, not nothing.
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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
