Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one - none, certainly, of anything like a similar importance - to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death.
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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Devo and The Cramps didn't get big until they went to New York City. Chrissie Hynde didn't get big until she moved to London. When I was growing up, there wasn't even a place to play - just one little bar. If we wanted to have a gig, then we had to drive 45 minutes up to Cleveland.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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You just have to take control of your own performance.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.
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I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.
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If I weren't an actor, I'd either be a teacher or a critic.
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I've learned what works and what doesn't, which gives me confidence.
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You knowTaken out of context I mustSeem so strange.
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I'd like to thank God for giving me the opportunity to sing with the greatest group in the world.
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After the Olympics and being on such a high and then losing in the World Championships, I was distraught. But now, looking back on it, I think it was the biggest blessing. I was going into every fight thinking I have to win because I am Olympic champion and putting too much pressure on myself. I lost my hunger and stopped enjoying my taekwondo.
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Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one - none, certainly, of anything like a similar importance - to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death.
