Lafcadio Hearn Quotes

Whatever doubts or vexations one has in Japan, it is only necessary to ask one's self: 'Well, who are the best people to live with?'

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• Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Great
  • Women

• Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Women
  • Song
  • Imagination

• I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Feel
  • Husband
  • Debate

• Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • World
  • Important
  • Spiritual

• So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Long
  • Freedom
  • Law

• I'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor.

  

  Xavier Dolan
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  • Time
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• A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'

  

  Bayard Taylor
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  • Long
  • Man

• The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • World
  • May
  • Political

• No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Good
  • Learning
  • Actor

• Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.

  

  Sally Phillips
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  • Beauty
  • Comedians

• As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
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  • Great

• National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.

  

  J. F. C. Fuller
  • Always
  • King
  • Fight

• I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Like
  • Never
  • Lift

• You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.

  

  Nastia Liukin
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  • Know
  • Person

• I think I've slayed my long jump demons.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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• The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.

  

  Bayard Taylor
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• Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.

  

  Fannie Flagg
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  • Life
  • Good

• Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Life
  • Faith
  • My Life

• I didn't really enjoy being at college, because I was putting myself through college. We just didn't have the money. I was responsible for that, so I was constantly looking for scholarships, grants, and work-study opportunities.

  

  Kim Hawthorne
  • Work
  • Money
  • College

• It is hard to make your adversaries real people unless you recognize yourself in them - in which case, if you don't watch out, they cease to be adversaries.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • People
  • Real
  • Case

• I'm hoping maybe people like working with me because I like what I do for a living and I want to have a good time.

  

  Martha Plimpton
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• It's really humbling to be acknowledged by such established names like CMT and Billboard.

  

  Kelsea Ballerini

• In terms of rock and roll, I'm often drawn to louder, rougher stuff; maybe that's my history as a punk rock wannabee showing itself! Honestly, though, I'm not one of those people who listens to music constantly. I really love silence.

  

  Jennifer Egan
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• Whatever doubts or vexations one has in Japan, it is only necessary to ask one's self: 'Well, who are the best people to live with?'

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
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