E. W. Howe Quotes
The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.
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The single most powerful element of youth is our inability to know what's impossible.
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
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I feel like I have lived all over the world since I get to go everywhere to film.
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Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise.
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The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
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You have to actually be weighted to something to do the moonwalk, you know.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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When they offered me 'Wayne's World 2,' they said: 'We were going to give this to another actor, then we thought we'd see you'. I just thought: 'Surely you always had me in mind for that just in the way that it's written?', but they never admitted it. It was a wonderful gig to do. Really special.
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Look at Inuit clothing. Their stuff still works better than Cabela's. I've made my own parkas, mukluks, footgear, and it is good to 60 degrees below zero. All I did was copy the patterns that came down from the Inuits.
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
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You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.
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I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
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I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.
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We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
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Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
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If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
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Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh.
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
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The virtual world is a 'public square' much more vast than Tiananmen Square. And you can't send in the tanks to crush the netizens.
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One is left with the thought that given the way we now abuse the ocean and abuse the climate that we are heading towards our own iceberg, which is looming on the horizon. It's not visible yet but it certainly exists there and it won't be my generation that has to deal with the fact that the world is not bountiful forever, that the ocean and the atmosphere are not free goods to be abused, that will have to feed these vast populations. That will be your generation.
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The Enterprise Value Tax is unprecedented, punitive, and has no justification in the tax code.
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The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.
