E. W. Howe Quotes
Nothing pleases a woman quite so well as to look so sweet that a man wants to kiss her, and then abuse him for his impudence.
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Sometimes what I think what the news is missing is the human element, the connection - the moment that you look into a little girl's eyes or a father who has just left his family and risked everything just to try and survive.
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I think in a play it's wise to just sit back and watch other actors and be able to shape it from the audience.
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I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.
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Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
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But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.
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I hate competition.
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It's tough when you have to be away. But I'm probably at home more than my dad was because he was working two or three jobs sometimes.
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Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!
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Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
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I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.
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Memo to White House: Calling voters stupid is not a winning strategy.
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I don't want to look back at my career and see a string of incredibly commercial projects that don't have much heart. I'm looking for things that have soul.
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Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.
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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
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My family was very, very receptive to all; all races, religions.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
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I wouldn't be able to do the songs as long as I've been doing if I didn't feel the pulse of the world. But I can feel people and I know what they want. I feel like I know how they are, because I am the people. And I just have a gift.
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I cannot but be astonished that Sarsi should persist in trying to prove by means of witnesses something that I may see for myself at any time by means of experiment. Witnesses are examined in doutbful matters which are past and transient, not in those which are actual and present. A judge must seek by means of witnesses to determine whether Peter injured John last night, but not whether John was injured, since the judge can see that for himself.
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Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.
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A lot of women, when they're young, feel they have very good friends, and find later on that friendship is complicated. It's easy to be friends when everyone's 18.
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The feeling of being an outsider was a big part of my childhood. I think that helps comedians. That feeling of being an outsider. That desire for a perspective that's all your own. The idea for me to make stuff myself with my own meaning came from that as well.
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Forgiveness is for yourself because it frees you. It lets you out of that prison you put yourself in.
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Nothing pleases a woman quite so well as to look so sweet that a man wants to kiss her, and then abuse him for his impudence.
