Carl Clinton Van Doren Quotes

The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 10, 1885 - July 18, 1950

Topics

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I really feel now like a native New Yorker. And I'm very happy here.

Joan Collins

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Speed is often confused with insight. When I start running earlier than the others, I appear faster.

Johan Cruyff

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Your face makes my soul want to eat chocolate pudding!

Andy Milonakis

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I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm in the book.

John Sayles

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Our children were mostly brought up and educated in the Churchill suburb east of Pittsburgh. Each summer, we took them back to England for an extended period.

John Pople

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At 19, I joined the Air Force during the Vietnam War.

Steve Blank

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When I did a study of all the coming-of-age movies that meant a lot to me, whether it was 'The Graduate' or 'Rebel Without a Cause' or 'Dead Poet's Society,' they all had that timeless feel. None of them were completely married to the details of their age. They felt timeless in their treatment of it. That's what made them resonate with me.

Stephen Chbosky

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The thing about being a dancer-turned-actor is that you know what hard work is.

Sonoya Mizuno

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I fear that too many have sadly surrendered their agency to the adversary and are saying by their conduct, 'I care more about satisfying my own desires than I do about bearing the Savior's power to bless others.'

Russell M. Nelson

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The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it's how you recover from those failures - is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

Michelle Obama

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We may lose our memory as we get older, but this might not be such a bad thing - who wants to drag a mental junkyard around at a time of life when you're starting to grow interesting little wings?

Michael Leunig

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There are very few things that 13 million people tune in to witness, so television is a really relevant and powerful thing.

Luke Macfarlane

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