Katharine Sergeant Angell White Quotes
As I write, snow is falling outside my Maine window, and indoors all around me half a hundred garden catalogues are in bloom.
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Many people think that the U.S. is ahead in the frontier technology sectors as a result of private sector entrepreneurship. It's not. The U.S. federal government created all these sectors.
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I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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I don't really desire things. I prefer to spend my money on experiences, on meals or travel.
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'First Family' on the CW is about the president and his family living in the White House.
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Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.
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All of a sudden I discovered that I'm allergic to caviar. It was the perfect metaphor for my life. When I was only able to afford bad caviar, I could certainly eat my fill of it.
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I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.
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The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
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And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.
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If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
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I'm 80 years old, and I don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.
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Obama is a great man who's just beginning to understand the realities. And I'm not just saying that because he reads my books. I would have voted for him anyway.
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When you make your living as a singer, you have to go where the gigs are.
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It made the most sense for us to select Sam Bowie. It was almost a no-brainer.
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I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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There's no easier way to cure foolishness than to give a man leave to be foolish. And the only way to show a fellow that he's chosen the wrong business is to let him try it.
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I've always believed in a higher power. You can call it God, you can call it Jesus, Krishna, Buddha, Allah, I don't care. I really believe we are all a part of God.
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There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
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I tend to write from a personal place, and most of the time when I'm writing by myself, it's coming from something I've experienced.
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As I write, snow is falling outside my Maine window, and indoors all around me half a hundred garden catalogues are in bloom.
