Frederick Scott Oliver Quotes

Men who are engaged in public life must necessarily aim at reducing opposition to a minimum, and one of the most obvious means to that end is by misrepresenting, discrediting or ruining their opponents.

Frederick Scott Oliver

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Acting's not my whole life. My children definitely come first.

Meg Tilly

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I need quiet and solitude to work. Darkness is best. If I am wide awake, I can't write.

Jeff Lindsay

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I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face.

Stephen Hopkins

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Someone may ask, 'How is justice greater than all the other virtues?' The other virtues gratify the one who possesses them; justice does not give pleasure to the one possessing it, but instead pleases others.

St. Jerome

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I've always related music to those moments when someone turns you loose on something and they haven't told you how to do it.

Stone Gossard

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It's difficult to know when to set boundaries around your health at work because the decline is so gradual. Allowing stress to build up, losing sleep, and sitting all day without exercising all add up.

Travis Bradberry

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If you want music that speaks to you, that LISTENS to you, you have to go out of your way, which I enjoy actually. I'm constantly on a private-eye kick to find the totally obscure.

Trevor Dunn

MusicEnjoyYouFindGoWant

I have an idea, and I have a perpetrator, and I write the book along those lines, and when I get to the last chapter, I change the perpetrator so that if I can deceive myself, I can deceive the reader.

Ruth Rendell

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During my time in Washington, I have become increasingly frustrated by the power held by the gun lobby.

Mike Quigley

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When I was a kid, I lived in a poor part of Chicago, and I remember my brother and me using towels as capes. My son does it, too.

Michael Pena

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The older painting - well, it does have an effect all at once, I suppose, but it's of a lesser intensity than a lot of the American work in the last ten or fifteen years.

Donald Judd

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I was a regular kid with a normal family life.

Christy Turlington

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