Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.
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I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them from our front-row seats for making bad calls!
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He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides.
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The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
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The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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I've fallen in love in my life a few times. It's the most exciting part of being alive - that I've experienced, anyway.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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It always feels good to put something you're proud of out in the world.
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Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.
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Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.
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Middle-class families know education begins at birth.
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God will give him blood to drink!
