Walter Hagen Quotes
You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
Quotes to Explore
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In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.
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The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.
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We are increasingly open to understanding how we are all connected and that if we sink the ship that we are all on, we all drown. However, we have simultaneously become so focused on our own life experiences that we think we are alone.
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I didn't grow up with a lot of babies in my life because I only grew up with my parents - I didn't have any brothers or sisters - and I didn't have my family close by.
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Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.
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I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.
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After a decade in public life working to stop Iran from ever acquiring nuclear weapons, I cannot support a deal giving Iran billions of dollars in sanctions relief - in return for letting it maintain an advanced nuclear program and the infrastructure of a threshold nuclear state.
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I am a total workaholic. If I don't shoot for two days, I get uncomfortable at home. I won't comment on my personal life. That is totally out of bounds. When I do get married, everyone will know.
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We weren't dirt poor, but there was no spare money kicking around. While it was very much understood that the way to a better life was through education, books were a luxury we couldn't afford. But when I was six, we actually moved opposite the central library, and that became my home from home.
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No one can be an artist without a rich inner life.
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In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
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It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
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My life is better than a lot of people I know. I'm definitely happy about that.
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Where there is love there is life.
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One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
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I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you're like, 'I need women around.'
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When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
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I certainly wanted Hedwig's world to be one where identification and categories are fluid, changing, and confusing, as they are, really, in life.
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You are paralyzed by the fact that cruelty is often amusing.
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Freddie will have been dead for 20 years in November. I was staggered because it doesn't seem possible that all that time has passed and I still miss him. He was my best friend, my best man. We shared so much and I owe so much to him.
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I probably felt some sense of relief, because when you're on this continuous production cycle and you're doing a show for a network where they expect you to come back every May or every June, you just don't get time to sort of recharge.
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I swear to God, I will see the Palestinian state, whether as a martyr or alive. Please, God, give me the honor of becoming a martyr in the fight for Jerusalem.
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You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
