Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.
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A lot happens in 20 years.
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I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.
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This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'
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Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.
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I wrote a song several years ago while I was in college called 'Muscadine Wine.' I really didn't know if it had potential or not, if it was good or bad or what. I played it for my roommates - who I played ball with - one night, and I knew they would tell me the truth. They loved it, and that encouraged me.
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The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.
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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
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Comic books are a big passion of mine.
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
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I have thousands and thousands of hats. Some are the most outrageous hats in the world. They are my disguise. I hide beneath them.
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The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
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My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.
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Here lies, on the small farthest beach,the Captain of the End.
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I don't have anything against organized religion per se. We all need something in our lives. I personally just have not accepted that belief. But I'm one of the few.
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‘Suppose your Aunt Dahlia read in the paper one morning that you were going to be shot at sunrise.’‘I couldn’t be, I’m never up so early.’
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No one is exempt from talking nonsense. The great misfortune is to do it solemnly.
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A system of government that makes the People subordinate to a committee of nine unelected lawyers does not deserve to be called a democracy.
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My favourite thing is to be somebody else, no longer be me.
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The fragments for the past, for me, are not without life.
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Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.
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You call it hope-that fire of fire! It is but agony of desire.
