Nathaniel Hawthorne 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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Whether or not we communicate it, I definitely seek my mom's acceptance and approval for everything. She has a strong commercial sense of movies and is a quintessential audience. When she doesn't like something, I know there is reason to worry. When she loves something, there is reason to celebrate.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy.
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I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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Nothing can make you more humble than pain.
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I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.
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Wrestling in Japan, obviously, the fans are a little bit different - very quiet, very respectful in New Japan - but here in the WWE, these fans are going nuts.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
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I love listening to pop radio.
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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
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We live not by things, but by the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation.
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Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
