Joseph Hall Quotes
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To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.
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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
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I have never worn dresses by grands couturiers.
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It's the thing I struggle with every day: the mental diligence and stamina needed to sit in front of the computer, open the file, start writing and to keep doing so, word after word, until I've created the next story. A combination of learning disability and chronic health issues make that the hardest thing for me.
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Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!
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Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they're interested in buying it. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes and see what they see within the first eight seconds.
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The London property market has excellent investment opportunities.
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The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it.
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A mass culture is a culture which can be appropriated by the meanest capacities without any intellectual or moral effort whatsoever. … Liberal education is the counterpoison to mass culture, to the corroding effects of mass culture, to its inherent tendency to produce nothing but 'specialists without spirit or vision and voluptuaries without heart.'
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We have all learned that addiction and mental illnesses are illnesses, and I think a lot of people overlook that it is a chemical imbalance; it's like cancer, a sickness, and people need to see it as that.
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Even when you take a holiday from technology, technology doesn't take a break from you.
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Nobody calls me silly. That is not a word that applies to me.
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I like both music and acting, and they both have a lot in common - timing, immediacy, stuff like that. But acting is more regimented. You wait around for hours, you don't get to write the script, you get hired. Music represents me better. I'm not acting; I'm just expressing myself.
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Years ago, when my attempts at a writing career came to a complete stand-still, I applied to the Los Angeles Police Department. This might seem odd for a liberal woman who once went to UC Santa Cruz, but I've always had a powerful fascination with crime and serious interest in finding different ways to contend with it.
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I have a lot of friends who come from alcoholic families, and they aren't alcoholics, because someone explained it to them. When I was in Washington DC, they really talked about the difference statistically between families that talk about drug addiction and ones that don't. The kids that can say "I see where this is going" have a much better chance of not becoming addicts, because they have been educated.
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A dreamcatcher is supposed to catch the bad dreams, to let the good ones through. When I was a child on the reserve, I had one hanging above my bed. I remember staring at it as I listened to my mother cry for hours in the dark. I have never known one to work.
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... There's a joy, To the fond votaries of fame unknown, To hear the still small voice of conscience speak In whisp'ring plaudit to the silent soul.
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Already madness lifts its wing to cover half my soul.
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It is not sin that kills the soul, but impenitence.
