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Edgar Lee Masters Quotes

Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.

Edgar Lee Masters

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: August 23, 1868 - March 5, 1950

Topics

Work Good Good Work Seize First Own

I'm sort of a strange bird.

Bird Strange Sort

Too often, tributes to the home-cooked meal assume every family has a schedule that gets everyone home by 5:30 P.M. And too many recipes treat cooking as a solitary pursuit that requires the cook - still most often Mom - to take time away from other family interactions and chores.

Stephanie Coontz

Family Home Time Cooking Mom Treat

I got called Scarface at school.

I've gotten very good at scheduling my life, scheduling the scene and preparing myself for knowing, saving the energy, consuming the energy, knowing when to go for it and having the available reserves to be able to do that. You have to think about that, because it's endurance.

Life Good Myself Energy Think You

To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.

Gold Black Coal

When I met people they said, 'You do look like a hobo, but you smell really good.'

Good People You Look Said Smell

Even now, most people call me Joy or Joe Lee or Joey. It's all fine with me. The only time I correct them is when they refer to me as Spike Lee's sister.

Time Joy People Me Sister Now

I feel similar to a lot of people. I don't feel unique. So what I'm trying to do in my films is provide something for people like me, but also a collection of scenes that instigate.

Derek Cianfrance

People Me Feel Trying Unique Like

At the parish level, where the church lives and moves and breathes, that's where we need to be engaging our people much more in understanding the Word of God... the Word of God reflected in the traditional teaching of the church, the Word of God reflected in the scriptures, is as much a part of their lives as anything else.

God People Church Understanding Need

If the only people we are able to extend empathy to are those who are like us, who come from the same country we do, or who share our faith, then we misunderstand what empathy is.

Faith Empathy People Country Same

I always want to be racing.

Racing Want Always

I usually like loud T-shirts and band shirts, so I just try to keep it as simple as possible with jeans and white kicks that are worn in and, like, a simple jacket.

Antoni Porowski

Simple White Possible Try Jacket

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