Edward Gibbon Quotes
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He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone.
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I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
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Well, you know what? The same people that get driven crazy by hip hop are the same people that probably listen to the type of music that drives me crazy. Like, Journey covers.
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It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.
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I've probably said that in every feature I've been in. I've been repeatedly defined as the girlfriend or wife.
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Toledo is better than exciting, it's happy. Because nothing is more conducive to unhappiness than taking yourself seriously, and taking yourself seriously is difficult when you're baseball team is the Mud Hens.
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Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
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You're going to change as you grow older, and that messes up a lot of relationships.
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Some people manage their writing by saying, 'I need to get 2,000 words written today,' others by saying, 'I will write for X hours.' Not me. I start with a plan for the book, break it down into scenes, and I know what scenes need to get written each day. If the scene takes more words than I thought, so be it.
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War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
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Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.
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The grand saga of how humans spread across the globe will need some amendments and annotations – rendezvous here, elopements there, and the commingling of genes most everywhere.
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My duty is that of a chronicler; and if I perform that conscientiously, the lessons which my observations suggest will need no pointing out.
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I don't have to wait to realize the good old days.
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It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
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Modernity means overabundance. We are living in the age of mass-produced objects, things that come without announcing themselves and end up on our tables, on our walls. We use them - most of us don't even notice them - and then they vanish without fanfare.
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My college degree is from a great university in 1944. I got my master's at Harvard graduate school, completely co-ed, in 1945. My mother got her college degree in 1920. What's the problem? Those opportunities were always there for women.
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Again the early-morning sun was generous with it's warmth. All the sounds dear to a horseman were around me-the snort of the horses as they cleared their throats, the gentle swish of their tails, the tinkle of irons as we flung the saddles over their backs-little sounds of no importance, but they stay in the unconscious library of memory.
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Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I'm singing her music or not.
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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
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No. --Claire Bullshit! Yes, a world of yes. --Eve
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Crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.
