E. W. Howe Quotes
We must be truthful and fair in the ordinary affairs of life before we can be truthful and fair in patriotism and religion.
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About the most exciting thing a baby can do is burp - I've spent hours of my life holding a baby on my shoulder and patting its back, trying to loosen up a burp. Burping was probably invented to give the father something positive to do, since our chests are not equipped to allow us to do much else.
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Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life.
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
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His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.
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We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies.
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Life is about timing.
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I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
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He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
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It's got to be harder in real life to win a World Cup. But depending on if you play World Class level on FIFA, it's going to be difficult to win in the video game, too.
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You get to bring your own sound system when you play an arena, all the lights and visual stuff, which I think is really cool. There's something about those old arenas, where it feels larger than life.
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I have both joyful and heartbreaking moments in life, even now. Stardom doesn't give us everything.
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Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made an impact, who people could even have recognized or identified. And it's really only been since Jackie Kennedy that there's been this idea that the family life of the president is such a central thing.
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He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
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It doesn't matter how old you are or what you do with your life, you will never stop needing your mum. And I will never stop needing mine, so thanks, Mum.
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Sanctification is the outcome and inseparable consequence of regeneration. He who is born again and made a new creature receives a new nature and a new principle and always lives a new life.
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I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my 'spaceship' and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again.
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My mother taught me that to maximize your philanthropic potential, you need to constantly challenge your capabilities and put yourself in situations that are not always comfortable. Through her example, I discovered that there is no more beautiful way to live a life than to live a life of service.
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My Plan A was to be a psychologist. I thought I would be a receptionist. I'm always middle of the road and very normal. I've always wanted a normal life, and this is what I got.
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Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.
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There was a strange atmosphere on the set because we were filming in this large house, which was used for troubled children. You'd go in and find walls had been burnt down. The building was charged with this history and it stayed with us throughout the filming.
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Acting has never been a thing that me and my dad have talked about. It's like footballers: when they get together, I bet the last thing they talk about is football.
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Life moves out of a red flare of dreams Into a common light of common hours, Until old age brings the red flare again.
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In 1969, when I graduated from Harvard Law School, women and minorities made up a tiny fraction of the first year associates accepted by top law firms.
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We must be truthful and fair in the ordinary affairs of life before we can be truthful and fair in patriotism and religion.
