Lawrence Welk Quotes
When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the country was still wild and harsh.
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
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What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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Environmental groups are not completely against dams. We approve of appropriate development.
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I get breakfast when everyone else is on their lunch break. I usually go to Dimes, which is a short walk from my apartment. Usually, I'll have chia pudding or an acai bowl and toast and sausage.
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It's a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.
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I travel a lot, and that makes it harder to date, but it also opens up opportunities for me to meet people where I wouldn't normally meet them.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
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I have a condition called Aspergers Syndrome, which is like a mild form of autism It means I don't interact properly in certain social situations.
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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.
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He was about building up the Trump name and then selling it and leasing it in as many different ways as possible.
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I know a lot of people who use the Internet really wisely. It enriches their lives in some way.
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I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
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Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.
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I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu. I was looking for some kind of calming, relaxing activity. I tried yoga, but it wasn't really me.
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...in my dreams the world would come alive, becoming so captivatingly majestic, free and ethereal, that afterwards it would be oppressive to breathe the dust of this painted life.
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Love can never make you weak, and love is not restricted to opposite sex. I love my parents, I love my animals, and I love my profession.
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The war against Iraq is as disastrous as it is unnecessary; perhaps in terms of its wisdom, purpose and motives, the worst war in American history... Our military men and women...were not called to defend America but rather to attack Iraq. They were not called to die for, but rather to kill for, their country. What more unpatriotic thing could we have asked of our sons and daughters...?
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My mother and dad were big animal lovers, too. I just don't know how I would have lived without animals around me. I'm fascinated by them - both domestic pets and the wild community. They just are the most interesting things in the world to me, and it's made such a difference in my lifetime.
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When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the country was still wild and harsh.
