Mary Boykin Chesnut Quotes
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.
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While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
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Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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I sent 'Hell or High Water' to Peter Berg, asking if he'd like to be involved.
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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
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Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
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The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news?
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.
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Shouldn't you put the same amount of effort into your giving as you might for your for-profit investments? After all, philanthropy is an investment, and one in which lives - not profits - are at stake.
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I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried about, I try to have a single person who is basically the key person in that area.
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Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.
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What is needed by him who would succeed in the highest degree possible is careful planning. He is to accumulate reserved power, that he may be equal to all emergencies.
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Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
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To all the people that he hurt, I'm not - I can't be an apologist for David Koresh, but I feel for people that have had negative experiences at the hands of David. Let me put it that way. I think about those people, whether I agree with them on every point or not. Everyone has a right to their experience.
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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
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Why do you wear a mask and hood?" I think everybody will in the near future," was the man in black's reply. "They're terribly comfortable.
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Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.
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Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world.
