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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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 love working with women.
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I don't think there was any overall Reich policy to kill the Jews. If there was, they would have been killed and there would not be now so many millions of survivors. And believe me, I am glad for every survivor that there was.
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Question: Is life as difficult as it sometimes seems to be?
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The weaker the country, the stronger the smile.
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Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business to talk about 'misery.'
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Erotic acts are instinctive; they fulfill a role in nature. The idea is familiar, but it is one that contains a paradox: there is nothing more natural than sexual desire; there is nothing less natural than the forms in which it is made manifest and satisfied.
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Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder.
