Edmund Waller Quotes
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In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
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The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in Los Angeles. You always see people with signs, and you're like, 'Isn't that lovely?' and then you see your own name on one - that isn't a taxi driver's! I was very impressed.
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Religion and education are no match for evil without the grace of God.
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The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.
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If you say the word amnesty - the 'A-word,' so to speak - it's DOA. If there's even a hint of amnesty in my district, it's dead on arrival.
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Doubt can motivate you, so don't be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.
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Everyone knows the link between the environment and their own health.
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I believe the people that buy my music believes in me.
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I am not helpless. Any timid minister will not go forward... I have come here to strive hard for the sake of the country, to work for the country. If anybody thinks that decision making process in the oil sector will be prevented, they are totally wrong.
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It's time Hawaii answer doubters and produce documents proving that it is a state. What are they hiding? And why haven't we seen these documents?
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I think, anyone in the arts, you're self-employed; it's so difficult.
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I love playing to people and seeing them react.
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Everything you can imagine is real.
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I won't be waitin' any more cause I know Baby, baby I was made for you
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Music is like a language: you cannot understand it unless you learn it, or more accurately, are born into it.
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The man sat watching the road, the weedstem twirling in his mouth and the threadthin shadow of it going long and short upon his face like a sundial's hand beneath a sun berserk.
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Action, not words.
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Yes indeed I have gained a lot out of playing scales and etudes.
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You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time. A lot of the people whose work they’ve taught in the schools for the last thirty years, I can’t understand why people read them and why they are taught.
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I can't stand folk who are all snobby about reality TV.
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Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
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Under the tropic is our language spoke,And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke.
