Margaret Wise Brown Quotes
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John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.
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Occasionally, if I am very confident in the establishment, I'll risk an egg salad on Dutch crunch, but I must be very confident indeed.
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Alaska itself is an unusual state.
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The market is so competitive. There are so many products that are similar. So we are forced to invest in innovative research in new products that are one or two years ahead of the market.
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We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?
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So I am, in fact, very optimistic about the future of my federal party.
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I don't feel like I have to dress up to go to the deli.
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But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And the NBA is taking advantage of the situation.
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Sometimes I think I am still that 5-year-old girl playing with her dogs in the yard. That's how I see myself.
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Goals help you overcome short-term problems.
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Aristocracy is always cruel.
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To speak of oneself means to lay bare one's own soul, expose it like a body to the sun. To lay bare one's own soul is not at all like taking off one's brassiere on a crowded beach!
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There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.
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The doctor-patient relationship is critical to the placebo effect.
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There is enough sadness in life without having fellows like Gussie Fink-Nottle going about in sea boots.
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I had the feeling that there was a dimension of reality that had not been dealt with in art: the dimension of ugliness.
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It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
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I made video art for quite a long time, and I made this video covering myself in burgers and dancing to Major Lazer and doing covers of Britney Spears songs... I can't remember how I got there, but my teacher said he'd have to fail me because it had mild nudity.
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Writers divide fairly cleanly into those who only work through what they hear and those who are more visual. I am the latter, where I lie down on my office floor and play scenes through my head to - cinematically, several times with different elements - to see what works. I can't write a scene until I can see it.
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Anti-Americanism may indeed have grown fiercer than it was during the cold war. It is a common phenomenon that when the angels fail to deliver, the demons become more fearsome.
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My mother turned me onto St. Jude back in the days when I was wild and crazy. She took me to the shrine on Rampart Street.
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At some point, you got to stop caring about people's expectations and care only about your expectations of yourself.
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It is a universal and fundamental political principle that the power to protect can safely be confided only to those interested in protecting, or their responsible agents - a maxim not less true in private than in public affairs.
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I won't let anybody get away with anything just because he is little.
