Nathaniel Parker Willis Quotes
I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison worm feeding on all its beauty.
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I think we all feel geeky at times, don't we? Isn't that all a part of the wonderful tapestry of life?
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Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.
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I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.
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I don't want my faith level to go up or down. And so I don't fear.
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I am not that big a method actor.
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All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
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I hate the sound of my voice. I can hear it from a mile away - it's nasally. Why do I talk like that? It freaks me out!
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It was just a moment, and I saw myself. Then I no longer could say what I was.
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My new question was, What do you do when your dreams come true? My answer was: Find new ones.
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The position of woman has doubtless been elevated through the influence of Christianity, but... it is probably fair to say that most of the great Churches through their teaching and organization have exerted a conservative and retarding influence on the rise of woman to equality with man.
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I shudder at the concept of a world tamed.
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Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.
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The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.
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Vast wings above the lambent waters broodOf sullen day.
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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.
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Since the soul in me is dead, Better save the skin.
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I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me.
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Neither privacy nor publicity is dead, but technology will continue to make a mess of both.
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I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison worm feeding on all its beauty.
