Amity Shlaes Quotes
Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
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One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
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My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
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Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
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Pablo wanted to be loved and accepted. He wanted to destroy the elite he despised so much, but he also wanted to be the president of Colombia.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
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To make a couple putts to win the Masters is just an amazing feeling.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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My stepfather had a connection with The Second City and told me I should go there. I woke up in a cold sweat one night and said, 'I'm moving to Chicago.' That's how I went to Second City.
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I think it's probably a good lesson for other people to follow - to not always make the decision that's popular for others, but to do what you feel like is the right thing to do.
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I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
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I think if actors are successful at one thing, they paint themselves into a corner sometimes, and what's the fun in that?
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When people ask me what's my field? I say, on one hand, a fractalist. Perhaps the only one, the only full-time one.
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I feel here that this time they have succeeded.
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From my point of view, there is a lot of joy in stage work.
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Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.
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Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.
