Harvey Penick Quotes
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We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.
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Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.
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Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career.
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You will never be indecisive if you know your purpose.
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I believe the President was enormously effective in small groups, small groups being anything under a hundred, where you could really communicate.
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We're not perfect, we're not clean cut. We're just trying to be ourselves.
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All day I have been tossed and whirled in a preposterous happiness; was it an elf in the blood? Or a bird in the brain? Or even part of the cloudily crested, fifty-league-long, loud, uplifted wave of a journeying angels transit over and through my heart?
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Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.
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There has been plenty to criticize about President Obama’s handling of the economy. Yet the overriding story of the past few years is not Mr. Obama’s mistakes but the scorched-earth opposition of Republicans, who have done everything they can to get in his way - and who now, having blocked the president’s policies, hope to win the White House by claiming that his policies have failed.
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Question every assumption and go towards the problem, like the way they flew to the moon. We should have more moon shots and flights to the moon in areas of societal importance.
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Without grace there is no hope, but with it there is no shortage.
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The work of art is a stuffed crocodile.
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And sometimes in life, I imagine, good things do happen. Most of the time, it's the opposite, obviously. But I don't think you should rule out the possibility that just occasionally chance might deal you a good card.
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When you want to build a ship, then do not drum the men together in order to procure wood, to give instructions or to distribute the work, but teach them longing for the wide endless sea.
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If I'm around spiders, my fear isn't so much the spider, but my fear is that I'm somewhere rustic and that spiders are crawling around. I must be in the woods.
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I have always believed that women are not victims, we are agents of change, we are drivers of projects.
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The woods are full of long drivers.
