Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
If a man, sitting all alone, cannot dream strange things, and make them look like truth, he need never try to write romances.
Quotes to Explore
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.
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We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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You look marvelous!
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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The privileged classes today are bothered about petrol and diesel prices while the poor can't afford two meals a day. I am a very small person, but I want us to think beyond personal and regional interests.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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We have the 2004 M1 here for reference, which is useful. It worked well here last year; we won the race and always did fast lap times so it will be interesting to compare it to the new bike and it will help us to understand which parts have improved.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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I've always wanted to do a lot of things.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.
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All I can say is, I don't talk about the personal stuff. It's the one thing you can keep to yourself. At least you try to.
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I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment.
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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I hate thinking about clothes. I hate shopping.
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Tolerance is just a makeshift, suitable for an overcrowded and overheated planet. It carries on when love gives out, and love generally gives out as soon as we move away from our home and our friends.
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Relating a person to the whole world: that is the meaning of cinema.
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If a man, sitting all alone, cannot dream strange things, and make them look like truth, he need never try to write romances.
