E. W. Howe Quotes
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
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I don't have a phone, but I do have an iPad.
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Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.
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Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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For me, surfing is as close a connection I can have with Mother Nature. To surf, you're riding a pulse of energy from Mother Nature. And it's strong. It's real. It's there. And you're dancing with that. You're connecting with that. You're might be the only person in the history of the universe that connects with that particular pulse of energy.
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I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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I guess I don't believe that death is the end.
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When you're me, when you're R. Kelly, everybody wants a piece of you, and if you don't give 'em a piece they'll find a way to get a piece of you one way or the other.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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The problem with a cost reduction strategy is that there is a finite limit.You can only get to zero.
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Homeschooling is great because it's extremely lenient, and so if there's a day I come home from practice and mentally, I'm just exhausted, I can actually just save the test for the next day if I really have to.
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You can learn from anyone even your enemy.
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Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.
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The more I come to understand music, the more I feel like a numbskull because there is always more to learn. The more I do it, the more I'm humbled. I'm just always trying to get better at it. I pick up a few tricks along the way.
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When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
