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'm not a singer. In 'Bye Bye Birdie,' I think I was the sad girl who sits on the park bench during 'Put on a Happy Face.'
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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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I just love jumping into someone else's life. It is a relatively cheap way to experience things you would be too scared to contemplate in your own life.
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Rides like this are engineering marvels for all the controls that need to be in place for it to work right.
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There are many people, including me, who admire the original mission of WikiLeaks.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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quoted in American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good (2015)
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Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.
