Louise Bogan Quotes
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Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.
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I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
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My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.
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I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.
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Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.
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Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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About two hundred or two hundred and fifty years after the death of Grettir, his history was committed to writing, and then it became fixed - nothing further was added to it, and we have his story after having travelled down over two hundred years as a tradition.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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I obtained eight years of elementary education in a two-room school, where I encountered a stern but engaging teacher who awakened my intellect with instruction that would seem rigorous today in many colleges. History figured large in the curriculum, exciting for me what was to become an enduring interest.
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I love Chicago. It's one of my favorite cities, hands down.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
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I introduced the Food Security Improvement Act in Congress to remedy the fact that most SNAP beneficiaries find themselves skipping meals or running out of benefits every month.
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The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early '90s. I don't think I was ever very good at pop music and as soon as I stopped trying, and started to write more the things I loved, it became much heavier and more aggressive.
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I get to meet different directors and different people.
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Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
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When I first moved from photography to filmmaking, I was worried about how big I had to become. I was one person, or maybe me and an assistant, and I had these small cameras, and maybe a flash.
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Britain's an island; it's always had a constant ebb and flow of immigration - it makes it a better place.
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The public needs art, and it is the responsibility of a ’self-proclaimed artist’ to realize the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for the few and ignore the masses. … I am interested in making art to be experienced and explored by as many individuals as possible with as many different individual ideas about the given piece with no final meaning attached. The viewer creates the reality, the meaning, the conception of the piece. I am merely a middleman trying to bring ideas together.
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I was home-schooled for my entire high school experience, so I never went to prom.
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Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.
