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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The words they spoke were voices that she heard. She looked at them and saw them as they were And what she felt fought off the barest phrase.
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I'm very wary with impressions - I don't think I'm very good at impressions, I hate doing them.
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It was a struggle for a long time. My parents were rightly cautious, in the sense that they were like, "We want you to do what you want to do. We just also want you to not have to sleep on an air mattress for the rest of your life." What was beneficial for me was that I did everything I could to let them be a part of my life and show them how seriously I took comedy. This is my way of helping people and contributing something to society, and I'm doing everything I can to be as funny as possible without embarrassing them. They're proud now.
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When I was younger, of course I had people act inappropriately to me. I've had certain directors yell at me. But I didn't stand for it, and I didn't let it go far enough for it to be in any way abusive to me.
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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.
