George William Curtis Quotes
Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
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People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.
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I like power and I like to use it.
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The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.
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The whole purpose of those attacks was to drive those contractors out. Lots of them had to leave. They were terrified.
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I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.
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I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.
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I am ready to fight according to the rules, and I ask for the opportunity to prove myself.
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When we train a horse to do a certain job, we're training the horse to be like a soldier, and yes, he still has a spirit, and he still has his ideas, but he is a disciplined soldier, and in the end, he will follow the rider's instruction to do what needs to be done.
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Last time I checked, private nonprofit organizations have a right and a responsibility to be able to set the highest standards and criteria on their own without interference, let alone the level of vicious attacks and coercion that has occurred by Planned Parenthood.
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I knew I wanted to do something creative, and you don't necessarily go to Harvard to do that. It's not the best choice for creative writing.
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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.
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The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.
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Anyone is welcome to hang out with me and have fun or sit down with me and talk. I don't discriminate against anyone. And I don't condone hating someone or treating them badly because they live differently than I do.
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It's not refreshing where there is confusion or any kind of discomfort in a group that has to work that closely together.
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As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was also in love with sailing.
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L.A. is my office. I come here for work and work only.
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Better were it to be unborn than ill-bred.
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I would have walked on the waterBut I wasn't fully insured.And the BMA sent a writ my wayWith the very first leper I cured.
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The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.
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All people - African, European, American - worry about being different. But I've learned that the traits we'd rush to get rid of are the very ones that others desire. People always covet what they don't have. That's why we should look at ourselves every now and then and say, 'I'm proud of myself. I like the way I'm made.'
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Some people have told me that I'm grumpy; it's not something that I'm aware of. It's not like I walk around poking children in the eye... not very small ones, anyway.
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Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
