E. W. Howe Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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I always wanted to do a bit of Bollywood and a bit of Hollywood.
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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I shifted my career when I was 44 to quit the Washington beats. I had a great Washington beat, a series of them, and I quit to start my tech column, which was a different kind of tech column.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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Smoke machines are the best!
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You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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I think most people are interested in our origins; once we understand, it might be easier to become the people we'd like to be. Or, better, become the people we think we already are.
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No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home.
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Building the future holds more attraction than ancestor worship, whichever ancestor we're talking about.
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Music in general and lately opera in particular fills my soul with hope and inspiration.
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With the Hubble telescope and all the other things that are out there, I believe something would have come through. Today, I really believe we are unique.
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The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.
