Flora Lewis Quotes
Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.

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Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
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A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.
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I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
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No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
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It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.
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People have often asked me, do I want to be the next Oprah - there is no such thing. Oprah is Oprah, and she's still being Oprah if anybody hasn't noticed... what I bring to TV is myself... I really think there's space in daytime TV for a whole bunch of fun, some amazing music, and some heart.
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With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.
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Spanglish is a creative way also of saying, 'I am an American, and I have my own style, my own taste, my own tongue.'
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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Hopeless of all he dared to hope so long, The music born within him dies away; Even the song he loved becomes a pain, Full-freighted with a yearning all in vain.
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Our constancy, same might call it our madness, was necessary to wear down the oppressive forces of the old democracy which, in Spain, was a hundred years behind the times.
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Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.
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It's a landscape that has to be seen to be believed. And, as I say on occasion, it may have to be believed in order to be seen.
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The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
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Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.