Abraham Polonsky Quotes
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Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the middle of a table. This sort of shopping bag denotes prices that will start chipping into your children's college education fund. Avoid it.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
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Because I travel so much, I bring my workout clothes and shoes wherever I go. That way I can always do some exercise.
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You must be independent and able to do for yourself. Then you do not have to marry a rich man; you can marry a poor one. And if it is wrong, you can go.
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Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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One of the great things about being a writer/journalist is that my boss loves me to go out and do features on being someone else. I did a feature on Kate Middleton, where I went to an incredible fancy state home in the countryside, put on a wedding dress and posed for engagement pictures with a fake Prince William.
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There's this wonderful first assistant and he'll be saying, 'Now Harry goes down among the dragons.' You have to hold yourself together. Because if you lose it for a second then you're sunk.
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When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.
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Life's a challenge, but that's the best part.
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Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.
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When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.
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My parents were ordinary people; we lived in a small apartment.
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I think that from the time you start playing sports as a child you see that your responsibility to your team is to play the best that you can play as an individual... and yet, not take anything away from being part of a team.
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It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
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With a film, you can get into it and love it. With music, you can listen to over and over again, but with music videos, they're like this short little stab.
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14. Just as the sun gives light to the moon this heart bestows the effulgence on the mind.
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That's what unions do. They can get money, they can get support, they can get manpower.
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You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
