E. W. Howe Quotes
I have long been disposed to judge men by their average. If it is reasonably high, I am charitable with faults that look pretty black.
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Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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It's time for some common sense from federal agencies.
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Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.
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Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.
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Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better; so I thought, 'It can't be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it.' That's kind of stuck with me.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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I'm convinced the fall of Aleppo will not end the war.
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I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.
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Caregivers attract caregivers and live in a community of love. They are energized by their caring, fulfilled, and they love life. Caretakers attract caretakers and live in the company of resentful victims who see themselves as misused and are fatigued from constant giving with no return.
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The only thing that I discovered very early on is that, even though we might change schools and cities and towns and states, the books in the library were the same. They had the same covers. They had the same characters. I could go and visit those people in the library as if I knew them.
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Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
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Change is inevitable. Things absolutely cannot stay the same. The type of change we invoke is up to each and every one of us.
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I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever.
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I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.
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The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.
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I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.
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Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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I really desperately want to write and direct my own movie.
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I believe that the world is a safer and a better place when the United States is the strongest military power in the world.
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You can fake a lot in a startup these days, what with Amazon Web Services and all sorts of off-the-shelf back-end components that let any even minimally competent duffer set up a Web app that does something. Intelligent planning for growth is rare among early startups, but it's the name of the game at a large, rapidly scaling tech company.
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Most of our designs are developed long before there is a practical possibility of carrying them out. I do that on purpose and have done it all my life. I do it when I am interested in something.
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The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
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I have long been disposed to judge men by their average. If it is reasonably high, I am charitable with faults that look pretty black.
