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?'
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
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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.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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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.
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National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
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I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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I think I've slayed my long jump demons.
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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.
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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.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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What I would love is for people to see some of the stories I want to tell.
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I think the system is broken; most people think that it's broken. And we think that what we're going to do is invigorate the political system and allow for this country to be turned around.
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We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.
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I'm no different than any other human being. I play music for a living, and we're very blessed.
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Space is not a good place to mix foods because as soon as you take something out of the package, it becomes a flying object.
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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?'
