Emile Zola Quotes
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels.
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In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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After being nearly eradicated from the lower 48 states by the 1960s, bald eagles were re-introduced to the Adirondacks in the 1980s, and I'm proud to report the view from my home indicates they are flourishing in upstate New York.
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The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.
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The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.
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I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either.
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My mum's really short so she always wears really tall heels, and I used to steal them and now it's just a part of my everyday life.
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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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I am proud of where I came from, and I am proud of what I've been able to achieve through hard work and perseverance. And I guarantee you that anyone who tries to say otherwise hasn't walked a day in my shoes.
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I cherish the ballets made for myself by Mr. Balanchine. He never lost his temper. He was quiet, humble, the genius of the 20th century.
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To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.
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I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas.
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You can chose if you want to be imagined or remembered.
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The approach taken to the Bible in almost all Protestant (and now Catholic) mainline seminaries is what is called the “historical-critical” method. It is completely different from the “devotional” approach to the Bible one learns in church. The devotional approach to the Bible is concerned about what the Bible has to say—especially what it has to say to me personally or to my society. What does the Bible tell me about God? Christ? The church? My relation to the world? What does it tell me about what to believe? About how to act? About social responsibilities? How can the Bible help make me closer to God? How does it help me to live?
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How does a country get away with keeping half its population in beekeeper suits? I'll tell you how. They say the magic word: religion. It's their religion. You say religion, you can get away with anything. The Catholics got away with fucking kids, for crying out loud!
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It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
