Judith Viorst Quotes
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Surreal can be exciting and good, and it can be like living inside an alien landscape, and it can be completely interesting, or you can be alienated from your own life - inside your own life, it doesn't feel familiar any more.
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I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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Rap culture is interesting and different and has purpose but it has a non-romantic view of life and of social feelings. There may be a void in that.
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I told as much of my life as I could to encourage people: to encourage others to get to where they should be, where they want to be.
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My mission in life is to preserve craftsmanship.
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Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.
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I think I value things more correctly. I hope I look at my life in a way that makes sense.
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When meeting difficult situations, one should dash forward bravely and with joy.
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If you're graduating from high school, and you come from a lower income family, you're effectively given two options. One is get a four-year college degree; two is work at a low-wage job, potentially for the rest of your life. We've got to do better on that front. We have to provide more options.
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I think everyone should live in New York City if they ever get the chance at least once in their life. It's such a great place to live; there's a different energy about living in the city.
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It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.
Garry Kasparov
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You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
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I have never struggled for anything in my life because I never thought I will be an actress. Film just walked up to my house with 'Abodh.'
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Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.
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The liberal feminist movement never imagined that women would take seriously the encouragement to become our own heroes and claim life for ourselves, on our terms, no matter who we are. Pro-choice and pro-life, Christian and not, poor and rich, black, white, gay and straight. It is a dream we all hold dear, and it's called the Tea Party.
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Most people go to ashrams or retreats to destress and rejuvenate themselves. But I come back to my roots, the place where I spent half my life. And when I return, I spend time in the farms, eating a stalk of sugarcane, driving a tractor, and chilling with childhood friends.
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In life, you have people that love to party. That's me. People that love God. That's me. People that love sex. That's me. People that love people. That's me. And people that make mistakes. That's me also.
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I needed a lot of the good things that church provided. But as I grew older, it became increasingly hard for me to rationalize the importance of church in my life with the beliefs that it required that were at odds with modern science.
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Make in India will not work if we take a conventional linear approach. It has to be a leapfrogging into the future, and India is ideally placed to do this.
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If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.
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You can kill the dreamer, but you can't kill the dream.
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I have women who offer to sleep with me all the time. But not men. They're all talk and nay action - as we'd say in Scotland.
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Recognize joy when it arrives in the plain brown wrappings of everyday life.
