Simple Quotes
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And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat.
Berkeley Breathed
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You cannot hear the name Martin Luther King, Jr., and not think of death. You might hear the words 'I have a dream,' but they will doubtlessly only serve to underscore an image of a simple motel balcony, a large man made small, a pool of blood. For as famous as he may have been in life, it is - and was - death that ultimately defined him.
Michael Eric Dyson
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I don't care how many yards you give up -- if they don't score, they don't win. Plain and simple. I don't care what they do.
Champ Bailey
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For me, Paul Simon has always been an incredible songwriter, as he writes very complicated songs that sound very simple, and he makes it look so easy when it's not.
Eliot Sumner
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My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
Vladimir Nabokov
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I'm simple in my approach and straightforward. I connect with the average person that is interested in food.
Lidia Bastianich
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Weak, feeble and foolish as it may seem to people, the simple story of the Cross is enough for all mankind in every part of the globe.
J. C. Ryle
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It makes life very simple actually. You could be giving a TV interview in howling gale and it no longer matters.
William Hague
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So many things that I was excited about as a kid were about proximity. The idea that somebody could grow up in rural Iowa and be into break dancing because of YouTube - that was a really simple, profound idea.
Ben Silbermann
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Don't confuse simple, reasonable honesty with radical silliness. There is no reason to try to articulate blurry feelings or over-explain every detail. The point is to be honest instead of internalizing, not to try to extract juicy confessionals out of everyday life.
Ann Burton
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To do God's will as fast as it is made known to us, to inquire hourly -- I had almost said each moment -- what He requires of us, and to leave ourselves, our friends, and every interest at His control, with a cheerful trust that the path which He marks out leads to our perfection and to Himself, -- this is at once our duty and happiness; and why will we not walk in the plain, simple way?.
William Ellery Channing
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You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason that they haven't done what I do. Most book reviewers haven't written 11 novels. Many of them haven't written one.
John Irving
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The simple things in life ground me and keep me focused so I'm able to do a good job with what is in front of me.
Kevin Eubanks
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It's pride, plain and simple, that keeps me from giving God all the glory and keeping some of it for myself. It is a battle we all fight in some form or another, some of us daily or even hourly.
Francis Chan
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology.
H. L. Mencken
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Just as Darwin discovered the law of development of organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of development of human history: the simple fact, hitherto concealed by an overgrowth of ideology, that mankind must first of all eat, drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, art, religion, etc.
Friedrich Engels
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If, since the start, I'd played well and put in some good matches it would all have been too simple.
Nicolas Anelka
