Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet . . . yet the fool has never read Shakespeare.
Quotes to Explore
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I never even held a guitar until I was 23 and living in California, but then loved it. I'm really not an accomplished instrumentalist. Maybe that has something to do with why I write and sing.
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Everybody feels better about himself, his community, and his country if employers are paying workers well. Economics, though, teaches that if every employer is pressured to raise wages, some labor will be priced out of the market.
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I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
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We struggle to understand how any mother could kill her own children.
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I believe the National Park Service has demonstrated strong partnerships geared towards respecting the private property of citizens in its administering of the current Trail of Tears National Historic Trail and will continue to do so upon the addition of the routes.
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When your dreams include service to others - accomplishing something that contributes to others - it also accelerates the accomplishment of that goal. People want to be part of something that contributes and makes a difference.
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I love how easy it is to run my business, Writing Workshops Los Angeles, with the help of email and my website. I love that I don't have to use cuneiform, a quill, or a typewriter to write my novels - I love to write on my laptop!
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A great amount of good is always evened out by a great amount of bad. I find it's best to acknowledge that weird balance.
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I can do lovers. I can do Sir Galahad types. I'm not going to limit myself in voice-overs to irascible old men.
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I'm from Pennsylvania, so I was in New York a lot and my brother lives in New York.
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Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
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I'm predisposed to never be in pure celebration mode.
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Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering.
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For real, some of my favorite music is Mexican. It's something about the bassline and the drumming. I can't even speak Spanish, but that's probably why I like it so much.
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As an actor, you always want to find a piece of who you are in every role you take on.
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There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
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I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.
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Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
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The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.
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There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.
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The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience.
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The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.
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Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
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A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet . . . yet the fool has never read Shakespeare.
