Esther Forbes Quotes
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In France, successive waves of Gaul, Visigoth, and Frank have swept over the land and have dominated it. But the fair hair and blue eyes and the clear skin of the conquering races have been submerged by the rising and overflow of the dusky blood of the original population.
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When you live with an open heart, unexpected, joyful things happen.
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Investors do seem to be comfortable with the Koizumi agenda. The fact that there are ever clearer signs that he is going to be returned is going to provide the yen with support.
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Maybe you could go backwards and forwards at the same time, but it wasn't easy. You had to want to.
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I want to bring back the pride and tradition long associated with the Pittsburgh Steelers, and more importantly, with the people of Pittsburgh.
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You can always improve your situation. But you do so by facing it, not by running away.
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Lewis Black taught me stand-up.
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I have created a life by stepping out of the box of people's limitations. I call it zigging when others are zagging.
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It's just endless what you can learn from a single work of art. You can fill up the crevices of your life, the cracks of your life, the places where the mortar comes out and falls away-you can fill it up with the love of art.
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I could say analogously that tolerance is the affable appreciation of qualities, views, and actions of other individuals which are foreign to one`s own habits, beliefs, and tastes. Thus being tolerant does not mean being indifferent towards the actions and feelings of others. Understanding and empathy must also be present.
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My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw.
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If Jesus predicted that the imminent apocalypse would arrive within his own generation, before his disciples had all died, what was one to think a generation later when in fact it had not arrived? One might conclude that Jesus was wrong. But if one wanted to stay true to him, one might change the message that he proclaimed so that he no longer spoke about the coming apocalypse. So it is no accident that our final canonical Gospel, John, written after that first generation, no longer has Jesus proclaim an apocalyptic message. He preaches something else entirely.
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If you don't have that empty white space around everything in the comics, the border of the page, then it feels like you're a little claustrophobic.
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You're playing or you're not playing. If you're playing, so just shut up and play.
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Don't tell me what I can't do!
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Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.
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Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.
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If you can't do, you had best shut up.
