E. W. Howe Quotes
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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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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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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for.
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First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.
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Sport crosses party lines and ethnic lines. It occupies a greater realm, and it's all the more disappointing when sports figures turn out to be like everyone else.
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I don't tell many people my last name.
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The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.
