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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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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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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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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A president who is concerned about an ongoing criminal investigation is almost inevitably going to do a worse job as president.
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Photographers usually want to photograph facts and things. But I'm interested in the nature of the thing itself. A photograph of someone sleeping tells me nothing about their dream state; a photograph of a corpse tells me nothing about the nature of death. My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.
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Both of my kids have my sense of humor - they're definitely entertaining.
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The challenge to people like me is, how do you use your capabilities and resources to help support things that are important to you, whether it's the arts or education or homelessness?
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When we started, there was lots of formalwear made with quality fabrics, but Loro Piana's innovation was to use these in casualwear, too.
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I certainly believe that all of my friends should have the right, as Marc and I did, to marry their best friend. I certainly expect my straight friends to help us achieve that for all New Yorkers, for all Americans, and for the children that, at least, Marc and I hope to have someday.
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In 1913 many believed that there would never again be a war in Europe. The great powers of the continent were so closely intertwined economically that the view was widespread that they could no longer afford to have military confrontations.
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I care not how worldly you may be: there are times when all distinctions seem like dust, and when at the graves of the great you dream of a coming country, where your proudest hopes shall be dimmed forever.
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All wars, whether just or unjust, disastrous or victorious, are waged against the child.
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Man's life is but a jest, A dream, a shadow, bubble, air, a vapor at the best.
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I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask: "Mother, what was war?"
