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John Burroughs Quotes

Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: April 3, 1837 - March 29, 1921

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Man Animal Ladder Him Up He

The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is mothers really need to be given the ability to parent.

Purpose Motherhood Parent Need Given

Can space break? I mean the space of art galleries. Over the past 100 years, art galleries have gone from looking like Beaux Arts salons to simple storefronts to industrial lofts to the gleaming giant white cubes of Chelsea with their shiny concrete floors.

Art Simple Past Space Looking White

Learn the Constitution. Then when someone wants to be elected, hold their feet to the fire and make them follow it because that's what we need to get back to. It works so well when we follow it.

Joe Wurzelbacher

Fire Constitution Feet Learn Someone

Who's ever going to write a film in which I get the girl? Me!

Girl Me Write Film Going Get

What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun misfires and kills a bystander. Better to have some rational cause and effect between incident and injury. And if cause and effect aren't possible, better that there at least be some reward for all the suffering.

Fear People Suffering Gun Better

I want to give other creatives the opportunity to find the entrepreneur inside themselves and teach them how to build their own platform.

Opportunity Find Entrepreneur Want

We're all confused and have problems and struggles.

Problems Confused Struggles

The few times I've tried to write original screenplays, it's a difficult process because I just don't feel like I know the characters the way I know them after the year or two it takes to write a novel.

Process Feel Year Know Way Write

Eating cold tuna fish out of a tin on a porch while two people are in love across a lake - I think that's desperately lonely.

Love People Eating Cold Think Fish

It has come to my attention that Missouri state and local law enforcement agencies may be in need of additional resources due to the unanticipated costs of responding to the unrest in Ferguson.

Law Law Enforcement Attention Need

When I got back into the film business after college, I started out as a production assistant.

Mike Lookinland

Business College Back Out Production

It's really about living in your head... just looking out at the world, then going back into your head and tossing around a lot of ideas and coming out with something interesting to say.

Lucinda Williams

Ideas World Looking Interesting Back

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