Emily Dickinson Quotes
No Life can pompless pass away - The lowliest career To the same Pageant wends its way As that exalted here -
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I'm 20 years old, and I still love love. I hope I'm sweet. Just your everyday girl.
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have nothing to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to connect with another individual has to do with humbleness. There are no lower or higher individuals in the perception of a humble person. There are only souls. There is only love.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
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I don't particularly like L.A.
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People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.
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Most reporters are so transactional rather than strategic.
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We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
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My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis.
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Quite simply, my writing life has been one of relish, challenge, excitement.
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When more Chinese started coming after the Gold Rush, employed on large projects like the Pacific Railroad, anti-Chinese sentiment became shrill.
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Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.
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Like a steely blade in a silken sheathWe don't see what they're made ofThey shout about love, but when push comes to shoveThey live for the things they're afraid ofAnd the knowledge that they fear is a weapon to be used against them...- The Weapon (Part II of 'Fear') (1982)
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Now who are the individuals who are the greatest benefactors of the living generation of mankind? I should say: Confucius and Lao-Tse; the Buddha; the Prophets of Israel and Judah; Zoroaster, Jesus, Muhammad; and Socrates.
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Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
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Eventually one day I want to direct, but as of right now my next cap that I'm looking for is the producer cap.
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I loved 'District 9.'
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A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel.
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It wasn't until I was 35 or 36, when I wrote 'Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,' that I began to get some notoriety, though I only made $5,000.
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The love of God toward you is like the Amazon River flowing down to water a single daisy.
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What you get in the Cold War is 'the wilderness of mirrors' where you have to figure out what's good and what's evil. That's good for John le Carre, but not me.
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No Life can pompless pass away - The lowliest career To the same Pageant wends its way As that exalted here -
