Helen Hunt Quotes
If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro, I would be thankful the rest of my life.
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I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.
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We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
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I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
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Part of America's greatness is its willingness to care for those who are truly in need. But those who defraud the system take money and resources away not only from American taxpayers but also from those who truly need help.
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Great leaders have a heart for people. They take time for people. They view people as the bottom line, not as a tool to get to the bottom line.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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Once, in Australia, I ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes, and I only did it because they said a girl could never enter the competition.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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A lot of times, we look at jazz in eras. How can we not keep those eras separate and think of the language as one complete continuum? It's all interrelated, and it's all evolutionary.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.
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To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
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The big things I've had are things I bought myself.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.
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I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists between the lines. What I'm compelled by most is that transparency of thought, what is left unspoken.
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In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits and fascinations outside of their work that others might consider odd.
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As we saw in the Queen's Speech, anti-social behaviour - a phenomenon that I believe to be a genuine worry that is also being fed by a lot of scare stories - is the political theme of the moment.
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I had been writing professionally since 1988.
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Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
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Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?
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Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
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If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro, I would be thankful the rest of my life.
