Epes Sargent Quotes
There is a just Latin axiom, that he who seeks a reason for everything subverts reason.
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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There were many films made for both cinema and television, and in general I don't connect them very much with our books. I have one favorite: 'The Man on the Roof' by director Bo Widerberg, which was based on 'The Abominable Man.'
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Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline.
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I remember once doing a gig in Ireland, and there was a woman jumping around and screaming, 'I don't know what this is but I love it!' I thought that was a nice compliment.
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Mr. Idris Elba is amazing! He happens to be British, but what's funny about him is that when he's speaking in his American dialect, he looks like he's a brother from the 'hood. But as soon as he brings out that English thing, I'm like, 'Woo! You look like you're from London. Oh my God!' It's like everything on him changes. He's so cool!
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I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.
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Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me.
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I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
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I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me, is the heroic in fiction.
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The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.
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Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
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I don't eat bad food. I probably just eat too much food, and I think a lot of people do.
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And I've always believed in what Martin Luther King, Jr. called 'the fierce urgency of now' - we should not fear change, we should embrace it.
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I try to keep my professional life and my actual kid social life separate.
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To play vinyl onstage is not my thing. For me, vinyl is for home listening.
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I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
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My brothers and I grew up on stories about our grandfather building one-room schoolhouses and about our grandparents' courtship and their early lives together in Indian Territory.
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If our opinions rest upon solid ground, those who attack them do not make us angry, but themselves ridiculous.
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I like the first-person games, but I like the two-person element in terms of playing basketball games with my friends. That's a good time; we have tournaments and things.
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I have mended fences with both my sisters. But do I have their families on my side? Not easily. My one sister, Florence, has two lawyers in the family and two doctors. Of course, I couldn't win that battle.
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The history of the United States is the story of people of many backgrounds.
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It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think.
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I live in New York. I have an amazing apartment over there; I have this amazing life over there that's full of glamour. I get treated like a queen over there - and that's one of the reasons I love coming home. It's very grounding.
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There is a just Latin axiom, that he who seeks a reason for everything subverts reason.
