Emily Dickinson Quotes
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
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The evidence of a Jewish civilization going back more than two millennia is overwhelmingly borne out in the archaeology of the region. The heritage of the Jews in Palestine is documented.
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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
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You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
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I think I need security.
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Although the evidence at this trial shows that Charles Manson was the leader of the conspiracy to commit these murders, there is no evidence that he actually personally killed any of the seven victims in this case.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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I had to start being aware of what I ate, what I'm planning to eat and take my twice-daily medication accordingly. That's not so difficult now, but when you're 10 years old, it's tough, let me tell you.
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I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic.
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Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
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I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.
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When you have a voice, and you have an opportunity at the world level to be able to speak, it has to be right.
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I have a very all-over-the-place lifestyle. The people I know who are married - 90 percent of them have houses and live in the same place and sleep in the same bed every night.
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My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
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Nothing in my life has necessarily been easy, but eventually I see where it's gotten me to, and I say, 'Okay, it's been worth it.'
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In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is worthless.
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Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
