Edward McKendree Bounds Quotes
Public prayers are of little worth unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying.
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I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
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I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
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One thing I've learned now is that I should not say when a book is coming out until I'm sure I know.
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The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
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I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
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We can't go all over the world killing people because we disagree with them.
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If boomers were always looking to shock, millennials are eager to share.
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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
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I was an umpire at little league softball games. I only lasted a few games because I wasn't one hundred percent clear on all the rules.
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I think that there is incredible prejudice about witches while there is no prejudice about wizards. Words are very important, and I'm really into destroying myths.
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Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
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Let's just focus on unity and love.
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When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.
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When you're a kid growing up, you say you want to make it to the Major Leagues, and when you reach that dream, that's what it's all about.
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Give your employees a shot at showing the company a new way, and provide the room for them to chalk up a few small victories. Once they've proved that their idea can work on a limited basis, they can begin to scale it up.
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'Ugly Betty' has been four years of my life, important adolescent years. I think that all I've really known was getting pampered and interviewed and getting my picture taken.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.
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Public prayers are of little worth unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying.
