S. I. Hayakawa Quotes
You just don't know anything unless you can write it. Sure you can argue things out in your own head and bring them out at parties, but in order to argue anything thoroughly, you must be able to put it down on paper.
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And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.
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It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.
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'Shameless' was such a weird time in my life because I never really experienced any kind of role that put me that much in the spotlight before.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.
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I've tried coconut water straight up before, and to me, it's a little funky.
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Every person gets negative things, they learn from those negative things, and you become a positive person.
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I'm a Midwestern girl, born and bred. It's harder for some of us to write about things closer to home. It's not so much a fear of telling the truth but wanting to do it justice.
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I love living in the country, so much so that I'm even surprised by it. I have met lots of interesting people - the community was really welcoming, and I now probably have a more interesting social life than I did in the city.
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In the 1970s, New York City avoided bankruptcy because wise political leaders like Gov. Hugh L. Carey believed both in strong labor unions and robust banks and companies.
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'She obeys me, but only because she wants to.''It’s the only justification for obedience,' Ged observed.
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There comes a time when the student turns his back on the teacher. His playing cannot have the necessary security, autonomy, self-faith, or communicative power until he believes his interpretation is his own.
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Have I? I hope somebody beats it out of me very, very soon.
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I can man anything that eats. Get me a piece of jerky. -John Joel Glanton.
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A decent man who doesn't consider himself a bigot can indeed be trained to behave like a bigot if he welcomes feedback exclusively from those who consider bigotry no big deal or, indeed, an attribute to be admired.
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I understand that the rule of fashion is to change, even as a successful designer - you do not want to be stuck in the same rut.
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Everyday I meet folks who show me how to look at challenges differently.
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My mother was the love of my life.
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I want Victoria to be the number one state in the best country in the world.
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I think I would have done very well as a writer in the Forties. I think the last time America was a great country was then or not long after. It was before Vietnam, before Watergate.
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My best ideas come to me at unexpected moments, like when I'm reading children's books to my kids (the pictures inspire me), shopping, driving somewhere, seeing different things.
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In the traditional modernist planning that created the suburbs, you put residential buildings in suburban neighborhoods, office spaces into brain parks and retail in shopping malls. But you fail to exploit the possibility of symbiosis or synthesis that way.
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You just don't know anything unless you can write it. Sure you can argue things out in your own head and bring them out at parties, but in order to argue anything thoroughly, you must be able to put it down on paper.
