Archilochus Quotes
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I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.
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Just let the wardrobe do the acting.
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'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'
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The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.
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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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The United States being a limited form of government, one of the restrictions to which it is subject is in regard to its power to levy taxes. The States may levy them for a great many purposes for which Congress cannot, because to the States belong all of the powers not delegated to Congress.
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There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.
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I sent 'Hell or High Water' to Peter Berg, asking if he'd like to be involved.
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In the acting community in New York we call 'Law & Order' 'grad school,' because everyone eventually does a 'Law & Order.' My first one was in 1995, which was a year after I got out of school. Matthew Blanchard was the character's name.
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I grew up in a scientific world, the son of a neurosurgeon.
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As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer.
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You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
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An ice-fishing shanty is basically a tin outhouse on a frozen lake, except that in an outhouse, the hole has a purpose. In ice fishing, the hole is what you stare at for hours, hoping that at some point you'll break the monotony by falling in.
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'The Daily Show,' at its core, is the answer to the nightly news.
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'Taxicab Confessions' always cracks me up. And if you are in the mood for a good game show, I like 'Survivor' because it's well made.
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I'm always a bit suspicious of writers who have the gift of the gab.
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I basically live out of my truck - I mean from place to place. I feel more at home in my truck than just about anywhere, which is a sad thing to say, but it's true.
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As for their healers and their worship of gold books of old lore, there had been tribal stories of this, too, all nonsense, as anything chattered by the ill-informed must be.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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When someone is anonymous, it opens the door to all kinds of antisocial behavior, as seen by the Ku Klux Klan.
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Rioting is not revolutionary.
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If the only thing you knew about Oman was its location, you might never go at all.
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In your hands, my fellow citizens, more than in mine, will rest the final success or failure of our course. Since this country was founded, each generation of Americans has been summoned to give testimony to its national loyalty. The graves of young Americans who answered the call to service surround the globe.
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πόλλ' οἶδ' ἀλώπηξ, ἐχῖνος δ'ἓν μέγα
