Wallace Stegner Quotes
There it was, there it is, the place where during the best time of our lives friendship had its home and happiness its headquarters.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
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I'm such a fan of Shailene Woodley, so I'm super excited to see all her stuff. She's an awesome actress.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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Everybody dresses like a teenager. Everybody dyes their hair. Everybody is concerned about a smooth face.
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I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.
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I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids.
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If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision.
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect I'll have hell to pay.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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I love the Army with every bone in my body.
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Any playlist without Prince is no friend of mine.
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I think oysters are overrated, and I don't love the texture.
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One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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There is an ideal of excellence for any particular craft or occupation; similarly there must be an excellent that we can achieve as human beings. That is, we can live our lives as a whole in such a way that they can be judged not just as excellent in this respect or in that occupation, but as excellent, period. Only when we develop our truly human capacities sufficiently to achieve this human excellent will we have lives blessed with happiness.
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There it was, there it is, the place where during the best time of our lives friendship had its home and happiness its headquarters.
