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Tag Name "Library" (1031)

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Jack Benny really liked my book. I know because he called me up from the library and told me.
Bob Hope
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Our nearly century-long experiment in banning marijuana has failed as abysmally as Prohibition did... In contrast, legalizing and taxing marijuana would bring in substantial sums that could be used to pay for schools, libraries or early childhood education.
Nicholas D. Kristof
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We take it into account from the very beginning and try to steer couples toward items that lend themselves to those circumstances. Sometimes we have to steer a little more forcefully - you can't fry French fries in the New York Public Library.
David Castle
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I have done quite a few signings at bookstores, libraries and conferences. I have received phone calls and letters from people who liked the book.
Kate DiCamillo
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I do not know how wicked American millionaires are, but as I travel about and see the results of their generosity in the form of hospitals, churches, public libraries, universities, parks, recreation grounds, art museums and theatres I wonder what on earth we should do without them.
William Lyon Phelps
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What people actually refer to as research is really just Googling. I already have a complicated relationship with research. It used to be going to the library and looking up archival photos, etc.
Dermot Mulroney
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A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it.
Richard de Bury
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..you do not leave a library if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.
Elie Wiesel
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Libraries should be open to all - except the censor.
John F. Kennedy
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If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.
Judith Martin
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If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
Lily Tomlin
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The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped in these days, when we have the results of them in our modern culture without going over the ground again.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton
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Freedom is a public library.
Paula Fox
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Frank [Zappa] always wanted to do a sound library - he sampled so many great musicians. For piano, for example, he sampled every octave, not just one (that you could just transpose electronically), and he did all different types of attack, with and without pedals, all that kind of stuff.
Gail Zappa
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I was always a reader. In the fifth grade, I got some sort of prize for having read hundreds of books from the library.
Vijay Seshadri
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Libraries can take the place of God.
Umberto Eco
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Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.
Edward Gibbon
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Once you read, you will be free forever.
Frederick Douglass
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My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self fulfilling prophecy?
Jodi Picoult
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I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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On my first visit to the public library, I was like a kid at a candy store where all the candy was free. I gorged myself until my tummy ached.
Craig Thompson
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Humans have externalized their wisdom-stored it in museums, libraries, the expertise of the learned. Dog wisdom is inside the blood and bones.
Donald McCaig
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I saw my ex-husband in the street. I was sitting on the steps of the new library. Hello, my life, I said. We had once been married for twenty-seven years, so I felt justified. He said, What? What life? No life of mine.
Grace Paley
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Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.
David Strathairn
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