James Stephens Quotes
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When you're on Earth, if you go to the top of a mountain, the stars look much brighter than they do at sea level. And because the space shuttle is above Earth's atmosphere, it's like being on a very, very high mountain. So they look brighter, but not bigger.
Sally Ride
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'Your God doesn’t care about you at all,' Travis said.'All the more reason to care about myself and others.'
Octavia E. Butler
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In the garden of tabloid delight, there is always a clean towel and another song.
Lewis H. Lapham
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Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children. And if you don’t help us, who else in the world can help us do this?
Albert Camus
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We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer's ink.
Albert Camus
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When she told people how nervous she was about any kind of public appearance, they said incredibly annoying things like, ‘Don’t forget to breathe.’ Now she knew why.
Edward St Aubyn
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Obviously, getting a number in the charts is a nice thing but the cherry on the cake rather than the main cake.
Charli XCX
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Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have actually been effected?
Pliny the Elder
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A birthday wish granted 23 years late is still a birthday wish granted.
R. K. Milholland
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I want to talk about my very first play, when I was in eighth grade. One day, my English teacher, Mrs. Baker, announced that we were going to read 'On Borrowed Time' out loud in class. I was a mediocre student; I was terrified that she was going to call on me, so I hid my head.
David Morse
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I get better coverage on my Spanish stations than I do on my English stations.
Gene Green
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By having much, you are fitted to have more.
James Stephens