Bret Harte Quotes
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I've gotten this advice at different times, and it distills down to one word: purpose. Why are you here? When you start to get distracted by thoughts such as 'Do I fit in? Does this person like me?' - remember why you're there and what you want to accomplish.
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We must strictly enforce the Environmental Law, closing down the polluters that fail to meet the standards.
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FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality.
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I want to make it clear that I honestly answered every question put to me during the so-called Iran-Contra hearings. But if they didn't ask me about something, I wasn't about to reveal things that would put other people in jeopardy.
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And when I first came out from New York, I hadn't driven in a long time. Now I'm like Joe Speedster.
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Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.
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Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.
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After studying art, I was a painter for a while and was asked to audition for a movie randomly. I hadn't thought of acting before that.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
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I don't want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.
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Let's not forget, I got divorced.
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I love the idea of metamorphosing and changing, the legalized insanity of acting.
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I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemical patterns that create and store memory.
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The Gospel has to be the norm.
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Citizens victimized by genocide or abandoned by the international community do not make good neighbors, as their thirst for vengeance, their irredentism and their acceptance of violence as a means of generating change can turn them into future threats.
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I'm lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place - Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I'm more patriotic to Massachusetts than to almost any place.
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Poles must understand history but we must also overcome it if it is obstructing our contemporary goals.
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Through all the hardships and all the operations and all the hospitals, all that stuff each part of my life, there's been some goodness, some greatness that comes in here and helps me to be strong, to continue what I'm doing.
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When you enter a room, you have to kiss his ring. I don't mind, but he has it in his back pocket.
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Virtue always meets reward,But quicker when it wears a sword;
