Wallace Stegner Quotes
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The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
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Berlin is in a state of transition. There are lots of people who don't stay here. They pass through. They might not 'clean up,' but they mature. It is a city where people spend a significant time in their lives, and then they move on.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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For people who think of chicken as the meat choice of those-who-don't-really-like-meat, brining a bird will be a revelation.
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There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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I've spent my life visiting a handful of people who are very close to me when they've been committed to one hospital or another in New York.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.
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I hate negative ads in general.
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Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.
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Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.
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The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.
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I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays, too, when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory.
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When I'm 80 years old, I don't know what I want to be remembered for.
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Be innovative. Don't listen to the tried and tested wisdom. Take a risk!
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What kind of society have we become when children in a great city cannot rely on mothers or fathers for a bowl of cereal in the morning and a brown bag with a sandwich and apple in it for lunch?
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I'm very ADD when it comes to working out. I have to keep it interesting for myself or it just gets quite monotonous.
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In practice, getting rid of crony capitalism is incredibly difficult.
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This early piece of the morning is mine.
