Donald Hall Quotes
In anything you write - in a short story, a poem - there has to be a counter-motion; it can't go all in one direction.Donald Hall
Quotes to Explore
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I am as passionate about the England team as anyone.
Wayne Rooney -
You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself.
Malcolm X -
To be aware of others' accomplishments and the indebtedness we have to so many people is to appreciate and begin to respect all members of the human family.
Hamza Yusuf -
If Europe's outer border is not blocked off, it makes no sense to speak of quotas.
Viktor Orban -
In tennis it's easy to get greedy - and one Grand Slam doesn't feel enough any more.
Samantha Stosur -
'Lost' seems to be the inverse of 'Air': It explores dispossession and identity by forcing a bunch of people into one invented landscape instead of using many invented landscapes to keep people apart.
G. Willow Wilson
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When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I mean, if we try to 'fluff up' 'Nikita?' We're done. If we try to 'fluff' 'Nikita,' I don't want to be involved and I don't want to watch the show.
Maggie Q -
Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
Abraham Verghese -
Barbara Castle should have been Labour's - and Britain's - first female prime minister. What a role model she would have been: passionate, fiery, and absolutely committed to social justice.
Patricia Hewitt -
I'm sure that President Trump will do plenty of things that people don't like, plenty of things people do like, and the people who don't like it, at that point, certainly take advantage of your rights and protest it - and try to seek change or do whatever you want.
D. B. Sweeney -
One of my top tips for aspiring entrepreneurs: Tell everyone you know about your idea. This runs contrary to the instinct that most people have, because they're afraid someone is going to 'steal my ideal.' Ideas alone are worth very little; it's in the execution and market feedback that companies are made.
Aaron Patzer
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I'm a communicator.
Naomi Judd -
Krapp: Ah finish your booze now and get to your bed. Go on with this drivel in the morning. Or leave it at that. (Pause.) Leave it at that.
Samuel Beckett -
Every country needs another country to make fun of.
Callan McAuliffe -
Piaget, who was originally trained as a biologist, views intellectual development as an interaction of an inherited genetic program with the environment. It is no coincidence that he calls this conception 'genetic epistemology,' in effect the study of the hereditary unfolding of understanding.
E. O. Wilson -
There still remained, for all men to share, the linked worlds of love and art. Linked, because love without art is merely the slaking of desire, and art cannot be enjoyed unless it is approached with love.
Arthur C. Clarke -
Find time still to be learning somewhat good, and give up being desultory.
Marcus Aurelius
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The longer I live, the more I feel like the stuff I see and feel is like a tracing of the outline of the real stuff that’s beyond our perceptions.
Charlie Jane Anders -
I was in a fashion show and I had on a strapless top. When I got to the end the top was down.
Adriana Lima -
People in Philadelphia are a world apart from New York. They're very different from people in the New York scene. The New York scene wants your visibility and wants your money.
John Gutfreund -
Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.
Miguel de Cervantes -
Believe in yourself, don't let people put you in a box and stay positive.
Brandon Green Area21 -
In anything you write - in a short story, a poem - there has to be a counter-motion; it can't go all in one direction.
Donald Hall