John Burroughs Quotes
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Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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When it comes down to it, Hillary Clinton will very much excite the Republican faithful to get out and work hard. I don't know if a similar case can be made if Obama is the candidate.
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There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something.
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I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.
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A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
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The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.
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I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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There's nothing that's impossible to me. You can ask my parents.
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We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.
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I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
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I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
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Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.
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When you have a chance to play a character people can relate to, it's rewarding.
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If we want more trade in the world, we should establish bilateral trade agreements with other democratic countries. That way we can control the decision-making process. The major economic countries of the world will enter into those agreements.
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I think there needs some attention to be paid to what sport is going to represent to young people: should it be viewed in the competitive, team-oriented sense that it is now, or does it become a vehicle for betting, which may, in effect, change the atmosphere in the stadiums and the arenas?
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If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
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I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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The practice of our democracy depends on a sense of, and knowledge of, history in the same way that playing in the World Series requires a bat and a ball.
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It's good to know you're working for someone you're familiar with, who's a friend and he has your back and you have his back also.
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A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.
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We are here to see and contemplate the great spectacle.
