Will C. Barnes Quotes

'Mustanging' was like trout fishing. It is always the big ones that get away. When you did get a bunch of them into a corral, you found they did not look half so large and handsome as when they were first sighted on the prairie.

Will C. Barnes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: soldier
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 21, 1858 - December 17, 1936

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I wanted the attention I missed at home, so I became the leader of a gang. That way, I got attention and was recognized as being important. It wasn't a bad gang - you know, in poor districts in New York, there's a gang to every block. We never robbed at the point of a gun; we'd steal potatoes from a grocery store, or crackers.

John Garfield

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There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain.

Robert Rauschenberg

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I made numerous attempts to find a way to do it all, to be a creative singer, songwriter, producer, and to be the mother, daughter, sister, lover, wife. And the thing about music is, with me, that she's a harsh mistress. She does not come to me in the midst of stress.

Anita Baker

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I had a great stepfather.

Michael Douglas

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We lived by the water, and I was a pretty normal kid until my teenage years; then I dyed my hair pink and spiraled out of control.

Tove Lo

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I rant and rave about noise pollution.

Robert Carlyle

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I feel there's a lot of anti-Israel sentiment in the world and a lot of ignorance about what Israel is and does. But it's not for me to speak on Israel's behalf.

Matisyahu

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Delhi has played a pivotal role in my both personal and professional life.

Mohit Chauhan

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I'm not an abstract artist; I leave that to others. To me, abstract art ended with Kazimir Malevich's 'Black Square.' To continue it is senseless.

Jonas Mekas

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It was my first time in prison. I was there to volunteer with Defy Ventures, along with 500 teammates Tara Graham, Brian Wang, and Aerin Lim. While I didn't feel particularly scared about going to prison, I had no idea what to expect.

Christine Tsai

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If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

Winston Churchill

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God allows unjust disparities between rich and poor because He does not miraculously intervene to establish justice against human wills. Also, discrepancies are not unjust by themselves; justice does not mean equality of result but equality of opportunity.

Peter Kreeft

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