America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago. ~Eric Alterman
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The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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To the seeing eye life is mostly sparrows. ~Will Cuppy
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story. ~Ian Somerhalder
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I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault. ~Tanith Lee
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Behind every kick of the ball there has to be a thought. ~Dennis Bergkamp
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My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds. ~Annie Leibovitz
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Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain. ~Bob Dylan
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I don't ever want to be comfortable with anything I'm doing. ~Ron Perlman
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A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ~Chinese Proverb
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Burning in effigy. Kissing the picture of one's beloved, it aims at nothing at all; we just behave this way and then we feel satisfied. ~Ludwig Wittgenstein
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I've been wearing Wrangler jeans for more than a decade now, all the way back to when I first started playing clubs in my teens in Georgia. ~Jason Aldean
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Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after. ~Peter Stuyvesant
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What exists is a godly existence, a divine existence. God not as a person but as a presence certainly exists. But to understand that presence, you have to understand your own inner presence first, because it is from there that you can take off, it is from there that you can have the first glimpse of what godliness is. If you have not known yourself you will never know God. ~Rajneesh
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I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow. ~Barry Sheene
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Winning is everything in Hollywood. ~Olympia Dukakis
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. ~Norman Vincent Peale
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Percy is the most powerful demigod I've ever met. No offense to you guys but it's true. ~Rick Riordan
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Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions because it loves moderation, delights in compromise an is most careful to avoid anger. ~Alexis de Tocqueville
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I'm very independent. ~Kate Bosworth
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In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story. ~David Morse
#quotes #david-morse #stories #film

If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy. ~Proverb
#proverbs #laughing

The most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instant of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by almighty God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the savior of the human race, was preserved free from all stain of original sin. ~Pope Pius IX
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Every great story seems to begin with a snake. ~Nicolas Cage
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I do all my own make-up, it takes me 10 minutes. ~Joan Collins
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