E. W. Howe Quotes
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
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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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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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More than 70 percent of seniors are asking for more time. It is long overdue for Congress to listen and make sure that seniors have a prescription drug plan that works for them.
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Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily.
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
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Every artist says that he/she wants to do something challenging, and I'm not any different. If someone approaches me with a serious role, I'll be more than happy.
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The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
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When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.
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I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.
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You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when you're eating dinner or something, and that's kind of the hard part. Or if you get crazy rumors that swirl around you from time to time that are just silly.
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I never said I wanted to be a lead actress; I never said I wanted to be a film actress. This need to trump everyone bewilders me. I'm only 25. I'm not better than anyone. I just want to watch other people and learn to be good.
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More than anything I want to get up there and hang out with the audience, make everybody feel like it's fun and they're involved and are just, like, friends hanging out in somebody's living room. I went to see Carole King on her 'Living Room' Tour, and that's the kind of feeling I'm aiming for.
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I wouldn't say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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I was told so many times when I was a kid, 'I can't be friends with you, you're too intense, you're too sad all the time.' I really thought that when I made the first album that everyone would understand me, all the people who weren't my friends would become my friends.
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I never had those dreams of making the Olympics. Never.
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I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.
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The easiest ways to improve your appearance is with a really good moisturizer that will plump up your skin, a bit of concealer and a creamy blush on your cheek and lip. It's quick and easy and you'll look so much better.
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The alternate media are becoming important and viable alternatives to playing live. Records, videos, that kind of thing. They're going to start to count for something. Because there's only a limited amount of us-time available to us.
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If you have enough ambition, you can create talent!
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I was intoxicated by the romantic poetry of our great writers. I arranged the world according to my private use, looking at it through the poems I had devoured.
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If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
