Edward McKendree Bounds Quotes
God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.
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Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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I didn't want to give up my Illinois driver's license and was unaware that was a crime. It is, by the way, in the state of California. Lesson learned. I technically broke a law, so technically I deserve whatever I get.
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The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.
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Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.
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During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impertinent and precocious, and, at the same time, intractably stubborn and angry if anything went against my will.
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Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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Musical theater is an American genre. It started really, in America, as a combination of jazz and operetta; most of the great musical theater writers in the golden era are American. I think that to do a musical is a very American thing to me.
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I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen; the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them.
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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.
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He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.
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Everything I publish is for my readers.
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A Kindle returns us to the inconvenience of the scroll, except with batteries and electronic glitches. It's as handy as bringing Homer along to recite the 'Iliad' while playing a lyre.
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I keep thinking that history runs in cycles, and that some day certain large issues will come before the country again. There will be leaders that inspire young people. I don't think it means that it's over forever, but I'm getting pretty impatient. I'm hoping it comes soon, so that my young people can know that experience that we knew in the '60s, and that the World War II generation knew during the '40s.
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You can't choose up sides on a round world.
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My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.
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I don't watch something just because it's a specific genre.
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God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.
