Wallace Stegner Quotes
I think, don't you, that a girl with any delicacy of feeling couldn't bring herself to marry a man indirectly responsible for her father's death. No matter how much she was in love with him.
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Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.
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I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.
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I love the road, and I love coming in contact with the fans. They talk to me and that's irreplaceable. But when I get tired, I head to the studio and I am in there for a long time.
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Children who have an education grow up to lead healthier lives - earn higher income, take better care of their families, contribute to their economies.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.
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In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.
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Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.
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About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
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Social Security, all public and no option, rescued older Americans from living their final years in poverty.
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We've come into the world of '1984,' but it turns out to be '1984'-Lite.
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Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
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I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.
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On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn't be entitled to our political opinions.
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I think drama school really teaches you how to annunciate; you're conscious that people might not understand you if you speak too fast and too Welsh.
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I use Shazam all the time.
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I don't think there's anymore chocolate boy left in me... Like, if I do the roles on the screen that border on romance, it will be age-appropriate.
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Mrs. Pidgeon: That little girl whose mother is in the, um, 'threesome.' Why do you say she's confused about her gender? She seems perfectly normal to me.Sparrow: Mom, she's a boy.Mrs. Pidgeon: Oh. Well then, I'm not quite so worried about that revealing top. I was going to speak to her mother.
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When I was a young girl, I wasn't always trying to have curly hair.
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I think, don't you, that a girl with any delicacy of feeling couldn't bring herself to marry a man indirectly responsible for her father's death. No matter how much she was in love with him.
