Wallace Stegner Quotes
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My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.
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I'm here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don't follow what you've been told you're supposed to do.
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The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
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We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.
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Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.
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I believe we are created in the image of God for a particular purpose, and I believe that with all my heart.
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I felt bad to have to get divorced. I wasn't proud of that.
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We will do everything to change what needs to be changed, fight against recession so that the country meets its targets, while reinforcing our country in the heart of the euro and the European Union.
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Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
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I think that's very sad, that I haven't allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few.
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I am not very proud of being an human being; in fact, I distinctly dislike the species in many ways. I can readily conceive of beings vastly superior in every respect.
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Rock was always part of my heart and soul. But the times just changed and everybody wanted to dance.
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I time everything. I'm a scientist at heart.
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I am so proud to have the endorsement of a distinguished leader like Glenn Poshard.
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I'm doin' something different. I mean, I talk a little bit about race and interracial dating, but it's not the heart of my act. I just try to do what I think is funny; there's no huge message or through line.
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I've been a big fan of Joe Hill ever since his first novel, 'Heart-Shaped Box.'
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For fitness, I've just bought a watch which keeps a track of how many calories I burn, what's my heart rate, which is very fascinating.
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Oregonians have many good reasons to be proud of our election system.
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This day is a day that is proud to me, having occupied the position that I did for the past twelve years, and been misunderstood by your race. This is the first opportunity I have had during that time to say that I am your friend. I am here a representative of the southern people, one more slandered and maligned than any man in the nation.
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I tend to approach giving interviews with the same sense of circumspection and restraint as I approach my writing. That is to say, virtually none.
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The Intelligent Design movement starts with the recognition that 'In the beginning was the Word,' and 'In the beginning God created.' Establishing that point isn't enough, but it is absolutely essential to the rest of the gospel message.
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Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to signify to you that Fortune is blind.
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I had ... come to an entirely erroneous conclusion, which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data.
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Be proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetime’s worth of lessons.
