Edwin Way Teale Quotes
The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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I never said most of the things I said.
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I need nothing from my companion. No money, no financial security, no emotional support, nothing. All I want is the freedom to be myself.
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The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.
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I am a mortician who tells you that you don't necessarily need a mortician.
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I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.
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My ritual is cooking. I find it therapeutic. It comes naturally to me. I can read a recipe and won't have to look at it again.
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Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be more debates like the one on Keystone.
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One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.
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History can never be covered up.
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A boxing workout is the heaviest thing, but it's the best. The worst part is that boxing gyms are the smelliest things in the universe. You have to lie down on the floor, where everyone has been sweating and spitting, and do 1,000 situps and push-ups.
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I thought that I could have a career in music. I really didn't know exactly what I wanted to do or how I would go about doing it.
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Does anyone actually think I'm going to call Tiger Woods and tell him what to do with his swing one day, and he's going to go out and do it, simple as that? It doesn't work like that.
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I think metal and horror definitely go hand in hand. Even when you go to a horror convention and meet the fans, nine out of 10 times if they're not wearing some sort of horror shirt, they're wearing a shirt with a metal band on it.
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People's ability to forget what they do not want to know, to overlook what is before their eyes, was seldom put to the test better than in Germany at that time.
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My parents always say I have really good legs. I've worked really hard for them. They always insist that I show my legs.
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I have a bunch of brothers. I grew up with a big family.
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The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.
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If we had paused to tell the people that we were Marxist-Leninists while we were on Pico Turquino and not yet strong, it is possible that we would never have been able to descend to the plains.
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Whenever there's a camera around, a video or film camera, it's a great deal harder for those in power to bury the story.
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I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.
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The Buddha teaches that feeling is an inseparable concomitant of consciousness, since every act of knowing is coloured by some affective tone.
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The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.
