Carl Sandburg Quotes
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
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Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.
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Hair and make-up always helps. I did always try to be well-groomed, professional at all times. Take your job seriously - but not yourself.
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Acting is a very big part of what human beings do. A dog is always a dog, but we're always changing.
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The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
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I love film, but it's bringing me away from music. Singing is what I'm probably most passionate about.
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All of us grow.
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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
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I have a different relationship with Chucky because he's been on top of my bookshelf in the corner of my living room for my entire life. He was a great tool for scaring friends, and when I see him in different theme parks I've been to, or in commercials, my heart swells a little bit, and I'm like, 'Aww! It's my Chucky!'
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I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.
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Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.
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I definitely I prefer to sing in the car. I don't sing in the shower, maybe its because that's the one time I don't need to talk to anyone so I should just shut up, otherwise I'm just, you know, jibber jabber.
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As irony would have it, the very person who inspired me to write a memoir... was the only person to be ejected from it. My brother didn't appear in 'Out of Egypt.'
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The GSEs are adequately capitalized. They are in no danger of failing.
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As far away as you can get from the process of mechanisms and machinery, the more likely your food's going to taste good. And that - that is probably the largest thing I can hand to anybody is let your hands touch it. Let them make it.
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When it comes down to hardball, we have a veto pen, and I've used it in the past, and I expect we will have opportunity to use it in the future. That's the nature of the business.
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Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder.
