Jane Addams Quotes
We fatuously hoped that we might pluck from the human tragedy itself a consciousness of a common destiny which should bring its own healing, that we might extract from life’s very misfortunes a power of cooperation which should be effective against them.
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I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of texts. And I can voice-text and say whatever I want to people.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
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It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
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But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.
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I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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My boring, mundane, diligent kind of golf works sometimes. Actually, it works all the time. And sometimes, on the greatest stages, it really does flourish.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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My first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I always spoke both languages at home. I'm very thankful that I was brought up in a bilingual house.
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I will concede to you one thing - 'Hustler' is offensive, even to the point of being iconoclastic. That's our purpose - to be offensive.
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My parents got me in trouble when I was in school because someone was getting bullied, and I didn't do anything about it. I just watched it happen and then came to the school, and I got cussed out for not helping and not being a part of it.
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I like to think I'll just be walking down the street one day and stop and meet someone, like, 'Oh my God, you're awesome,' and then we start dating.
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To read too many books is harmful.
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There's nothing in the Bible that says, 'You must play video games.'
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The way to resumption is to resume.
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My mother was always supportive.
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What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
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It's sad to know I'm done. But looking back, I've got a lot of great memories.
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The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don't know nothing. I mean, that's my life lesson.
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There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.
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I believe kids should choose what they want to do, because it's their life, but they have to choose something, and they can't quit in the middle unless there's a really good reason. There are going to be peaks and valleys. You don't want to let kids quit during a valley.
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We fatuously hoped that we might pluck from the human tragedy itself a consciousness of a common destiny which should bring its own healing, that we might extract from life’s very misfortunes a power of cooperation which should be effective against them.
