Edward Young Quotes
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I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
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I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.
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I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like ambient music, but at the root of the song, it's verse-chorus-verse.
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I'm not a morning person, but I've become one as the result of having kids. The morning is my private time to spend with my boys.
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You're human; you make mistakes. You have to put all the things in the past.
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Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
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Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
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My daughter, Lily Caitlin, means the most to me in the world.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn't want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
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My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.
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It is our family's hope that the true legacy and context of Malcolm X's life continues to be shared with people from all walks of life in a positive manner that helps promote the goals and ideals for which Malcolm X so passionately advocated.
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I've been writing in some way, shape, or form for as long as I can remember.
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I always feel like I wasn't the best trainer, because I'm really good at teaching people stuff, but I'm not good if people aren't super psyched - if they're not like me.
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All that would remain of me would be the raincoat I’d been wearing, rolled on a bench.
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It had been his experience that the worst cynics all started out as idealists.
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Is there a poem that never reaches words And one that chaffers the time away? Is the poem both peculiar and general? There’s a meditation there, in which there seemsTo be an evasion, a thing not apprehended or Not apprehended well. Does the poet Evade us, as in a senseless element?
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I would recommend all men in choosing a profession to avoid any that may require an apology at every turn; either an apology or else a somewhat violent assertion of right.
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Still, the music was always there, and the lyrical capability was always threatening to show its head.
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God never made a promise that was too good to be true.
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But they say, 'It is not so much the Dreadnoughts we object to, it is pensions'. If they objected to pensions, why did they promise them? They won elections on the strength of their promises. It is true they never carried them out. Deception is always a pretty contemptible vice, but to deceive the poor is the meanest of all.
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There buds the promise of celestial worth.
