Gene Veith Quotes
When I go into a restaurant, the waitress who brings me my meal, the cook in the back who prepared it, the delivery men, the wholesalers, the workers in the food-processing factories, the butchers, the farmers, the ranchers, and everyone else in the economic food chain are all being used by God to “give me this day my daily bread.”
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
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My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.
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We love Popsicle in our house. Nick could probably down a whole box in one sitting; he's obsessed with the sugar free box, and I'm just obsessed with the classic.
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I feel like there should be a statute of limitations on scoring political points on the tragedy that was Hurricane Katrina.
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Polka dots are fabulous.
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There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
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I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.
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Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.
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I'm totally myself.
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If we go to the 1940s, Nazi Germany - look, we saw it in Britain. Neville Chamberlain told the British people: Accept the Nazis. Yes, they will dominate the continent of Europe, but that is not our problem. Let's appease them. Why? Because it can't be done. We cannot possibly stand against them.
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Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
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It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
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He writes the kind of music you whistle on the way into the theater.
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I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows. I was a solid in the midst of other solids.
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Colour-blindness always extends to the complementary colours. Those who are red blind are also green blind; those who are blind to blue have no consciousness of yellow. This law holds good for all mental phenomena; it is a fundamental condition of consciousness.
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He didn’t like concentrated responsibility. Agreement with other people who he thought were good, right minded, and trying to do the right thing by the world was almost as necessary to him as air to breathe.
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Strategy is about stretching limited resources to fit ambitious aspirations.
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At least us old men remember what a real bear market is like, and the young men haven't got a clue.
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I write for myself, and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage and giving it a space there.
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In the Year 2000 men will finally discover that the reason women go to the bathroom in pairs... is to make out.
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A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country.
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When I go into a restaurant, the waitress who brings me my meal, the cook in the back who prepared it, the delivery men, the wholesalers, the workers in the food-processing factories, the butchers, the farmers, the ranchers, and everyone else in the economic food chain are all being used by God to “give me this day my daily bread.”
