Emily Dickinson Quotes
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I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual. But I don't believe in things like guilt.
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I think the possibilities are endless in terms of what the genre would be like. However, in terms of looking for sources of money, I think we have to be very careful not to fall into Hollywood's commodification of Chicano culture. We could look at the example of Piri Thomas, a successful Puerto Rican writer now living in the Bay Area, who has received repeated offers from Hollywood...and he said he's not going to write about his people doing drugs and going to jail.
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There's no such thing as a self-made man. I've had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.
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When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
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I know I'm searching for something Something so undefined That it can only be seen By the eyes of the blind In the middle of the night.
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Senator Kerry voted to undermine the troops in the field, and that is not only inexcusable, it is reprehensible.
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I am very glad indeed to see you to-night, and yet I will not say I thank you for this call, but I do most sincerely thank Almighty God for the occasion on which you have called.
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If there's a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it gets done.
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I see that not everyone in the West has understood that the Soviet Union has disappeared from the political map of the world and that a new country has emerged with new humanist and ideological principles at the foundation of its existence.
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A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence.
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Almost all the bars in Southeast Asia are lady bars. The listener and participants who interact and frequent the clubs are exclusively male who become actively involved with the ladies, not the music. Coming to them to listen only to the music is not what people do.
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Society will be obeyed; if you refuse obedience, you must take the consequences. Society has only one law, and that is custom. Even religion itself is socially powerful only just so far as it has custom on its side.
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But when I am alone, I do not have the effrontery to consider myself an artist at all, not in the grand old meaning of the word: Giotto, Titian, Rembrandt, Goya were great painters. I am only a public clown-a mountebank. I have understood my time and have exploited the imbecility, the vanity, the greed of my contemporaries. It is a bitter confession, this confession of mine, more painful than it may seem. But at least and at last it does have the merit of being honest.
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The only Commandment I ever obeyed — 'Consider the Lilies.
