Donald Hall Quotes
One Oxford poet confessed to me that I had been scary because I talked American and wore tennis shoes.
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The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
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Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.
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When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.
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One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
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I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
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May the work for the further development of chemical science, which has its strongest roots in this beautiful, strong and hard-working country of Sweden, continue to flourish in the future, for the promotion of culture and the benefit of mankind.
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Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.
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I hate thinking about clothes. I hate shopping.
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China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary.
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I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.
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I'd probably describe my sense of humor as 'twisted,' I guess. It's not hard to make me laugh, especially when I'm surrounded by my close friends, especially my bandmates.
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No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
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Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.
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In the U.S., search engines are king. That is because everyone already knows what they are looking for. Brands have been around for a long time.
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'The Fifth Gospel' is set entirely inside the Vatican and told from the perspective of a Catholic priest. I'm not Catholic myself, yet authenticity and factual accuracy are very important to me, so the novel required an enormous amount of research.
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When we were on the farm, we were isolated, not just by geography but by the primitive living conditions: no electricity, no running water and, of course, no computer, no phone.
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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
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The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism.
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Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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We have the resources and technology to produce more energy than we consume and break our long-standing dependence on foreign sources of oil. All we need is the will. In fact, there's a path to follow, one that North Dakota blazed over the last decade by building a comprehensive energy plan we called Empower North Dakota.
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Children (nay, and men too) do most by example.
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Putin could no more survive returning Crimea to Ukraine than Bibi Netanyahu could survive giving East Jerusalem back to Jordan.
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One Oxford poet confessed to me that I had been scary because I talked American and wore tennis shoes.
