Fannie Hurst Quotes
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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I try very hard to handle things equally: ideas, materials, and images.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.
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You can talk about and think about Muslims as you want, but you can't stop Muslims from building a mosque. You can hate Muslims from the comfort of your house or publicly, but when that becomes stopping Muslims from building a mosque or worshipping, then we are crossing the line into something else.
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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
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On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture.
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I auditioned for 'The Office,' and I don't know if it was a role I could do, but I liked the character. You do one take, and you're reading with a person who's just sitting in a chair and not really... you're not playing off someone, which is what I like to do. I like to play around and find the moment.
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I have been the victim of heartless malice.
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I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.
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When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.
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Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.
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People dream their whole lives of their Oscar speech; I dreamt my whole life of hosting the Oscars.
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I love my music, so I want to produce, write, and serve my music. I've had to learn about EQ frequencies and programming and space and clutter and how to be a better piano or bass player - everything.
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I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
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We were able in the Recovery Act to get a program where we increased our loan guarantees to 90 percent. Because we had that program, a bank wouldn't have to take that much risk.
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During my teenage years as an Islamist recruiter, I moved to live in self-contained communities in the London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets.
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The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives.
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How can you hope to recognize good and evil for what they truly are if you have no belief in a moral authority greater than yourself?
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I ride a recumbent bike for half an hour every day.
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Spiritual formation is for everyone. Just as there is an 'outer you' that is being formed and shaped all the time, like it or not, by accident or on purpose, so there is an 'inner you.' You have a spirit.
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Here I begin to know that blessedness is what can be snatched out the passing day and put away to think of afterwards.
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A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
