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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God is serious about how we worship Him, and we must be serious about it, too.
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I didn't like to see us get that big lead because you saw what happened. We went into that lull and they were able to get on that big run late in the half. In the second half we regained our poise and did a much better job of controlling the tempo.
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Actually the action called a kiss represented nothing more for me than some place where my spirit could seek shelter.
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When I started playing the bass, I became kind of fascinated by it and started investigating various styles of bass playing, and I was really struck with funk music, mainly American funk music - Stanley Clarke, Funkadelic and that kind of stuff. That comes out in a couple of songs like 'Barbarism Begins at Home.'
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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.
