George Washington Cable Quotes
Did I say the book of nature is a catechism? Yes, But, after it answers the first question with "God," nothing but questions follow.
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The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
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Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.
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At its core, the United States is grateful, warm-hearted, full of unexpected twists and turns - not a cold and bullying prison - it's a place of infinite jest.
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.
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'Giving 2.0' is about making your giving matter more to the people we all hope to help, and it's about making your giving matter more to you.
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I've got a song on every album, two songs as a matter of fact on every album without Auto-Tune, and that's the song that nobody talks about. It's weird.
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If you aren't please tell me how you are going to not have a war.
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Perseus wore a magic cap that the monsters he hunted down might not see him. We draw the magic cap down over eyes and ears as a make-believe that there are no monsters.
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I make no excuses. It is what is it. I came up short. I took a chance, it didn't pay off. I'll be back.
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You worldly-minded people are most unfortunate! You are surrounded with sorrows and troubles overhead and underfoot and to the right and to the left, and you are enigmas even to yourselves.
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If religion is about truth, why is it so afraid of error?
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The Japanese say, If the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated.
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Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.
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I guess my mom raised me right. She was very celebratory of her body. I never heard her once say, 'I feel fat.'
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I've loved musicals ever since I saw 'The Lion King' on Broadway.
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The fact that there's people out there that care about what I'm eating for breakfast or care about a tweet that I posted in 2012 that they pulled up because they were searching on my Twitter and things like that - it's hard to understand, because it's just me, and I just think, 'What's so interesting about me?'
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I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers.
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I mean it's very hard to meditate and live a spiritual life in America. People think you're a freak if you try to.
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I'd love to write with some people from the U.K., like Ed Sheeran, Emeli Sande... there's a very long list.
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Some immemorial imbecilities have been added deliberately, on the ground that it is just as interesting to note how foolish men have been as to note how wise they have been.
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Did I say the book of nature is a catechism? Yes, But, after it answers the first question with "God," nothing but questions follow.
