Emily Dickinson Quotes
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Hacking involves a different way of looking at problems that no one's thought of.
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I started out with comedy in college, but had my major in Recreation Administration - which meant I wasn't going to get a real job - so I started doing a little standup.
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Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.
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I sing to Jesus for Jesus now. This gives me pure joy... worship!
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My father was military, so I traveled a lot, so I had 13 to 15 first days in new schools. Bullies transcend culture, unfortunately, and I had to deal with them wherever I went. I knew how to defend myself. But I didn't know how to fight.
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You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff.
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The eye of God ends up inside, so that, in the end, you take care of judgment and punishment yourself.
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I love - you know, I'm a big fan of Prince and Curtis Mayfield and Smoky Robinson. It's something to be said about a man who can be very masculine but still display that sensitive side, and that falsetto does it perfectly.
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We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames the human race.
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Kids who don't have moms suffer a lifetime.
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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.
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The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.
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I have a chart for success at school because it gave me a great deal of pleasure. It opened my mind to the world. I learned to read.
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In nerve-free multicellular organisms, the relationships of the cells to each other can only be of a chemical nature. In multicellular organisms with nerve systems, the nerve cells only represent cells like any others, but they have extensions suited to the purpose which they serve, namely the nerves.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.
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If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people. (5 November 1958)
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The most important movement in the world is the feminist movement. If we can really figure out what's going on between men and women, the other problems will take care of themselves. I'm sure of it.
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Cursing is highly effective in person - someone kicks his car in rage, forgetting he's wearing flip-flops, flames pour from his mouth, and it's impressive. But you see it in print, and it's just ugly.
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My first wish is to be free, my second, to be reconciled to Great Britain.
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Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one directionally, without regret or reservation.
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November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.
