Edward Burns Quotes
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Literatures, like trees and plants, are born of a land and in it flourish and die. But literatures, also like plants, may be carried abroad to take root in a foreign soil.
Octavio Paz -
I liked 'Scream of the Banshee' because it was a real challenge. I thought, 'How am I going to pull off this character?' But, I also thought, 'Oh, man, I'm going to go for it.' He's got all the defects of character that an actor loves to play. So, I had a really great time.
Lance Henriksen -
Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.
Ted Nugent -
If people who cherish freedom, who know the importance of mutual respect and are aware of the imperative necessity to establish a constructive and critical debate, if these people are not ready to speak out, to be more committed and visible, then we can expect sad, painful tomorrows. The choice is ours.
Tariq Ramadan -
Reading is power. Reading is life.
Karin Slaughter -
Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Carl Sagan -
It's just really fulfilling to celebrate with a group of folks, a team, than it is personally.
Sam Hunt -
It's kind of cool to have the whole country at your back. Not just a city, but the whole country is rooting for you.
Patrick Kane -
I don't want any competition; I've finally made it! I don't want any young bucks knocking me off and taking my job, so stay in school! Stay in school and get a nice job working in an office!
Adam DeVine -
I was teased if I brought my books home. I would take a paper bag to the library and put the books in the bag and bring them home. Not that I was that concerned about them teasing me - because I would hit them in a heartbeat. But I felt a little ashamed, having books.
Walter Dean Myers -
Unite liberality with a just frugality; always reserve something for the hand of charity; and never let your door be closed to the voice of suffering humanity.
Patrick Henry
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All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
Iris Murdoch -
One of the first auditions I had in New York was for a commercial where I had to go in and audition to be a snake charmer... It was either some bank commercial or something where they wanted a guy charming a snake... I remember they wanted to know if I actually knew how to snake charm.
Aasif Mandvi -
Only a thoughtless observer can deny that correspondences come into play between the world of modern technology and the archaic symbol-world of mythology.
Walter Benjamin -
My father warned me about men and booze, but he never mentioned a word about women and cocaine.
Tallulah Bankhead -
Fascism was not the protector of any one class, but a supreme regulator of the relations between all citizens of a state.
Benito Mussolini -
The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users.
Alberto Manguel
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I am whelmed, and not overly whelmed, just whelmed about a lot of facets in life - just how fragile life is and the different challenges you have in life, phobias about things.
Kevin Nealon -
I think that what we've been able to do is put together both a good group of scholars and analysts and people who aggressively want to make the case to the American public.
John Podesta -
I like to do chill things on dates. I think it would be fun to go to the zoo. I know it's really weird and random, but I love animals. It'd be like a day of doing silly things, while enjoying nature.
Ashlee Simpson -
Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request. It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.
William Cobbett -
I didn't grow up with a mother telling me what was under my clothes was bad or evil.
Charlize Theron -
The stigma of the straight-to-DVD thing is over.
Edward Burns