E. W. Howe Quotes
It is your enemies who keep you straight. For real use one active, sneering enemy is worth two ordinary friends.
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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I was a tomboy.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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I do not accept the right of big powers to change governments as and when it affects their interests.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imaginary numbers. The farther you go into science, the mushier the ground gets. You start to say, 'Oh, there is an order and a spiritual aspect to science.'
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Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.
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You have to follow that next step.
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For Israel to retain its amazing position as the largest concentration of high tech after Silicon Valley, we need more engineers and mathematicians. We have too many lawyers.
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I think, for any actor, dealing with the paranormal is intriguing.
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I don't want my faith level to go up or down. And so I don't fear.
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Growing up, I wasn't the most vocal kid in the world. I feel like I learned through observation, and usually, when you're watching things, you're not speaking. That sort of metastasized in a way that I began to participate less and less in the world.
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You've got to be able to take the bad events with the good ones. You've got to learn to deal with them and learn to take as much as you can from those. Have fun and put as much as you can into it. As long as you've done your best, that's all you can do.
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If you refuse to acknowledge that there is any waste that can be culled from the military budget, you are a big-government conservative, and you cannot lay claim to balancing the budget.
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I'm a visual writer, so it's fitting that my first brush with 'Red Queen' was an image. I had the idea of a teenage girl in an arena, a bit like 'Gladiator,' and she's about to be executed. But instead of being killed, she kills her executioner with lightning.
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When they write about real stuff like my custody battle, that's no fun. Some things have leaked out about accusations that have gone back and forth and that's just mean. It's a tactic.
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Yes, but I don't think of the Teen Angel as of an age.
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A lot of players were going to Europe, but there were always stories of teams not being able to pay, and the players and girls were stuck with no money for airfare to come home. So I got a nice contract from Japan and decided to play there.
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Honestly, I enjoy nothing more than two Republicans going after each other.
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Foreign-language books are sometimes more beautiful when you can't tell what's being said. It's like you ruin it by reading.
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It is your enemies who keep you straight. For real use one active, sneering enemy is worth two ordinary friends.
