Loudon Wainwright III Quotes
I'm writing about what's happening to me now. I mean, I had a hip replacement a couple of years ago. I have a song about that. And why wouldn't you? It strikes me that that was a huge event. It's kind of funny and horrible and interesting, so why wouldn't one write about that?
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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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You can imagine, if somebody's approaching retirement, and all of a sudden the funds that he or she is depending on is depleted by 50% or however many, it gives them a sinking feeling in the pit of their stomach.
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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The president has been more than willing to challenge the National Rifle Association, but that is like a Republican president standing up to labor unions - not a move that risks anything with his core supporters. Mr. Obama could show some real bravery by taking on Hollywood.
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I'm pagan.
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I wrote my novel 'Bitter Greens' as the creative component of a Doctorate of Creative Arts and am now looking at the history of the Rapunzel tale as my theoretical component.
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My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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Transferring our sovereignty and decisionmaking power to the WTO, to the United Nations, or any other international body is not in the long-term interests of our people.
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But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
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I'm convinced many of America's heroes are public school teachers and administrators. Many of these people do what they do because of their faith.
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
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I was stationed at a marine recruit depot in San Diego from 1965 to 1967.
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My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary.
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The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
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He made one laugh sometimes by speaking the truth, but this is a form of humour which gains its force only by its unusualness; it would cease to amuse if it were commonly practised.
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Never participate in the secrets of those above you; you think you share the fruit, and you share the stones - the confidence of a prince is not a grant, but a tax
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I think it's a very bad idea for someone to start writing for a readership.
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My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world.
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Remember that the problem with hyper-parenting isn't that it's bad for children; it's that it's bad for parents.
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I'm writing about what's happening to me now. I mean, I had a hip replacement a couple of years ago. I have a song about that. And why wouldn't you? It strikes me that that was a huge event. It's kind of funny and horrible and interesting, so why wouldn't one write about that?
