Erica Brown Quotes
That's true of every form of literature - each writer brings new things to it because each of us is an individual.
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I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate.
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In the glory which overhangs Palestine afar off, we imagine emotions which never come, when we tread the soil and walk over the hallowed sites.
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If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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It is my job to sell these fighters. I'm now a business partner of the UFC. What I do directly affects my paycheck. I try my best. I just don't want people to be indifferent.
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Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.
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The train's always full of football fans going up to see matches. Oh, they make sure I hear their points of view all right. They all want to have their say about their team, and make their opinions known.
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I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.
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I just want to continue with gymnastics because I'm still young and fresh. I think can get some more titles under my belt.
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I have been involved with the USO really my entire life. The first show I did for the USO, I was nine years old.
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I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.
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My dad's a Republican. My dad's my mentor. When I was 18 or whatever it was and I decided to register to vote. My dad's Republican, so that's what I decided to register as.
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Psychoanalysts believe that the only 'normal' people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anyone else.
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When the fearsome foursome of rock music, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis, decided to show up in Toronto for a rock and roll festival, I knew we had to go there to try to get them all on film.
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One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.
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A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.
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We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all. Because the worth of the idea never becomes apparent until you do it. Sometimes this idea can be the smallest thing in the world, a little flame that you hunch over and cup with your hand, and pray will not be extinguished by all the storm that howls about it. If you could hold onto that flame, great things could construct around it, that are massive and powerful and world changing, all held up by the tiniest of ideas.
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I have respect for literature. If he found the words, if she found the words - this is a book!
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Literature is always what the dominant ideology recognizes as literature.
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That's true of every form of literature - each writer brings new things to it because each of us is an individual.
