Wallace Stegner Quotes
The national park idea, the best idea we ever had, was inevitable as soon as Americans learned to confront the wild continent not with fear and cupidity but with delight, wonder, and awe.
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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I just feel so flattered, because the cosplayers really make sure every detail is there. I don't think I've ever cosplayed a character before, but if I were to, I'd probably go as a Klingon from 'Star Trek.'
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I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
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The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.
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I am doing characters that have so many layers. And I am very lucky that I show a lot of variety.
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I'm all for being in love and whenever I like someone, I end up pretty much completely smitten.
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I love to get a massage but I'm quite a baby with it. I don't like them too hard or anyone walking on me or anything. When it's good, it's the best thing ever. When it's bad, it's an hour of absolute agony.
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If there are three words that need to be used more in American journalism, commentary, politics, personal life... it's the magic words 'I don't know.'
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I will openly admit that I've never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins mantra of professional sports fandom, but hockey was definitely the lowest sport on the totem pole - even when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup.
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I don't believe that employers should have access to an employee's private passwords, including Facebook.
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For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.
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I love seeing tattoos on 60-year-olds who have had them for 40 years.
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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I don't think I put too much pressure on myself.
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Even as a kid I would find the one person whose attention I didn't have and I would zone in on that person. It became a challenge.
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Men out of fear will cling to the thing they most fear.
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I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.
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The national park idea, the best idea we ever had, was inevitable as soon as Americans learned to confront the wild continent not with fear and cupidity but with delight, wonder, and awe.
