Charles Dudley Warner Quotes
Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
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Hedge funds are not especially liquid. Many are 'gated' - meaning there are only small windows when you can withdraw your money. They typically have a high minimum investment and often require investors keep their money in the fund for at least one year.
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I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.
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Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.
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I love bayou life.
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I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don't know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures.
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There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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My best friend is my husband.
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I started coming up to New York at age 17. There was a girl I met over the summer somewhere; I was chasing her. I would drive up to D.C., where I had made some friends, which was about four hours away, and we would take the bus up to New York.
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I try to avoid describing one interpretation of my books. Of course I have an opinion. I have things I want to say, but I don't ever want to limit anybody, to have them say, 'Oh, he said this, so that's what it's about.' I'm happy people bring their own stuff to it.
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This was something I always dreamed and wanted to be part of, when women's wrestling was freakin' cool, and now it is.
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Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural.
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I was lucky enough to go to an all-boys prep school in upstate New York that had a film program, so we had access to 16mm Bolex cameras, Nagra sound recorders, Arriflex cameras. We even had an Oxberry animation stand!
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I knew Kathy Joosten; we worked together on a very short-lived series called 'Thanks' for CBS.
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When work starts feeling too comfortable, fire yourself; go get another job.
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Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.
