Erin Gruwell Quotes
Don't let the actions of a few determine the way you feel about an entire group. Remember, not all German's were Nazis.
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I was 12 when it really hit me. I did children's theatre camp during the summers and played a fairy in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' The next summer, I played Clytemnestra in 'Agamemnon' and I was like, 'OK, this is amazing.'
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Food has always brought me comfort and the bingeing is triggered when I'm in a space that is not positive.
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Cynicism and skepticism are the crudest form of quasi-intellectualism... Let the cynic become cynical of his cynicism and the skeptic skeptical of his skepticism and join the battle.
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Information is a business in itself. It is also something that has made control impossible ... you cannot get customers to accept prices in one place when they know there's a better deal elsewhere. It's a whole new world.
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So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.
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To reject practice by saying, 'it is conceptual!' is the path of fools. A tendency of the inexperienced and something to be avoided.
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I like to interpose in all of my appointments, if the Lord wills.
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One of the things that you learn, having been in this [President's] office for four years, is the old adage of Abraham Lincoln's. That with public opinion there's nothing you can't do and without public opinion there's very little you can get done.
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America's not just [about] looking out for yourself, it's not just about greed, it's not just about trying to climb to the very top and keep everybody else down. ... Hard work, that's a value. Looking out for one another, that's a value. The idea that we're all in it together and [that] I'm my brother's keeper and [my] sister's keeper, that's a value.
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The Church did the most when the Church was the least like the world.
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You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.
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Whether we are able to be a complete success or failure is in such critical balance that every smallest human test of integrity every smallest moment-to-moment decision tips the scales affirmatively or negatively.
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You need not apologize for being brilliant, talented, gorgeous, rich, or smart.
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A great deal of thought must be given to your daughter's marriage. Otherwise, she will simply slink off like a cat on a dark night to be fertilized under a bush to God knows whom!
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Truth is not always a pleasant thing.
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The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation.
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I'm definitely a lover, but I fight when I have to - for something or someone.
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I never thought that I would have the guts to join the movement. I can’t even believe it. It’s so cheesy, but women are so much stronger together, and it just makes me proud to be a woman.
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Who has never exploded in a fury does not know love either.
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If you were the government you would get the people being angry and trying to find hope to believe something new again. So we didn't have time to do that. It was just two years, the most difficult situation in Greece.
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The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.
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Don't let the actions of a few determine the way you feel about an entire group. Remember, not all German's were Nazis.
