Mark Helprin Quotes
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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The science of life is changing hearts and minds.
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There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.
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It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Despite the strength of the feminist movement in the 1970s and beyond, a fable has persisted that educated women are rejected as marriage partners.
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I can say this: You haven't lived until you've had to wear a triplet pregnancy belly. You would be amazed at what a girl can learn based on the different months of pregnancy to make her character more interesting.
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I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer.
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I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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I'm not very good with stills. I get all twitchy.
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Any reaction is better than none.
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Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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People don't know the real me. The hard times I went through are what led me to my life now. I was a mess as a teen! I was kind of wild and really unhappy.
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I'm just being normal. A normal woman. Well, I don't know what a normal woman is, but I'm a woman and I'm Yoko and I've never changed that.
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There is a time for all things, but I didn't know it. And that is precisely what beats so many men in Wall Street who are very far from being in the main sucker class. There is the plain fool, who does the wrong thing at all times everywhere, but there is the Wall Street fool, who thinks he must trade all the time. No man can always have adequate reasons for buying or selling stocks daily or sufficient knowledge to make his play an intelligent play.
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If it wasn't for music, I would think that love is mortal.