Eve Merriam Quotes
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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I went to law school with a plan of going back home and practicing law to support my farming, and Dad said, 'There's just not room here for us.' So I took off to practice law and got involved in some politics, and the rest just moved on forward.
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In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.
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In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.
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Care and pity are two different things.
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Have the pride of the brown girl and know that you'll figure out your own beauty in time.
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I love design.
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I understand only three things - films, fitness, and food.
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I speak for all Malaysians in expressing my admiration for the Queen and the grace, poise and selflessness with which she has carried out her duties during her long reign. She represents the very best of British traits: dignity, resilience and hard work.
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If you consider the definition of authenticity, it's saying something and actually doing it. I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
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When we send our young men and women into harm's way, we have a solemn obligation not to fudge the numbers or shade the truth about why they're going, to care for their families while they're gone, to tend to the soldiers upon their return, and to never ever go to war without enough troops to win the war, secure the peace, and earn the respect of the world.
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I like to hunt. We went to a nuclear power and hunted in the woods next to it. I got a 34-point rabbit in there. We always go at night. It's easier. All the critters glow in the dark out there.
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Against what should fire be opened? Against the obstacles which may delay the march of infantry. The first obstacle is the enemy gun. It will be the first objective assigned to artillery masses.
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Alice in Chains: Through the Looking Glass. Rolling Stone (November 26, 1992).
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I love the music from Nat King Cole, BB King, Albert King... When I think of it, I wouldn't mind being renamed Angus King.
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Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
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Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.
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The best music of my life I heard at my grandmother's church, this little wooden church up on a hill.
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If you just add all the time, add more and more light, it loses its meaning.
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Being an actor has always been my dream.
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I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask: "Mother, what was war?"
