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Herman Melville Quotes

To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.

Herman Melville

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: August 1, 1819 - September 28, 1891

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One Thing Thing Another Oftentimes

I'm a combative person, I know I am, and the greatest thing about law school was I learned to fight with my brain. I clarified something to myself. No matter how much you want to live in the white man's world, you either live by what you believe in, or you die.

Live Myself Man Fight School I Am

I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater.

Sitting Dressing Room Dressing Room

The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.

Food Best Comfort Chicken Will

My dad is a singer. He used to sing in nightclubs, or pizza joints.

Pizza Singer Used Sing He Joints

I want to play everything. I really want to do it all.

Play Want Everything Really

I have three children, each of whom is having an idyllic childhood, probably because I have been at the office the entire time.

Children Time Childhood Three Office

I was deep into it - worldwide liberation politics as well as domestic - but by the end of the '80s, I had decided it all comes down to one single issue: campaign-finance elimination.

Steven Van Zandt

Politics Deep End Down Single Well

If I had an office job, I'd probably be doing the exact same thing I'm doing on television: hanging out by the water cooler and talking to co-workers about their relationships.

Water Job Doing Talking Television

After an era of everything being super-sized, who would have thought that major companies would be racing to market smaller, lower-calorie versions of their snacks and beverages - from half-sized candy bars to little, mini soda cans? We see it everywhere we go.

Thought Racing Go Candy See Little

Once I'm on the phone, I just can't say no. I sometimes find myself doing things for three or four organizations in one day.

Lorraine Hansberry

Myself Day Doing Find Phone Three

May is the month when people focus on mothers more than any other time of year.

Christy Turlington

Time Focus People Year More Month

The mistake we made in the 1990s was overestimating the potential of NAFTA's positive impact.

William M. Daley

Positive Mistake Potential Impact

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