Helen Keller Quotes
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I don't believe in sharing my money. If I go out and work my nuts off and make some money, I don't feel that I should have to share it with my community.
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Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.
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Since Kennedy's death, the nation has not seen, in any of his successors, his cosmopolitan intellectualism or the oratorical eloquence with which he sought to lead the nation by the power of his words.
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At some point, a flash of sustained clarity reveals the difference between what someone would have you believe is true, and what you know from the depths of your own heart to the peaks of your soul to be true. What happens after that is up to you.
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Our entire approach to the banking and financial services business is risk-adjusted returns. We believe that in most parts of the world, and including pockets in India, banking tends to mis-price risk.
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Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap.
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I've always loved the language of flowers. I discovered Kate Greenaway's 'Language of Flowers' in a used bookstore when I was 16 and couldn't believe it was such a well-kept secret. How could something so beautiful and romantic be virtually unknown?
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I do not take up a responsibility unless I am sure of putting my heart and soul into it.
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In the primitive church, it was customary for the Holy Eucharist to be celebrated on the anniversary of the death of a martyr - if possible, on his tomb.
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To speak of oneself means to lay bare one's own soul, expose it like a body to the sun. To lay bare one's own soul is not at all like taking off one's brassiere on a crowded beach!
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I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.
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Some people only ask others to do something. I believe that, why should I wait for someone else? Why don't I take a step and move forward.
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I sort of believe that my voice was preordained; I'm a Buddhist who believes in reincarnation so I think that my voice is a few lifetimes old.
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Something I stand for is being brave enough to invest in creative ideas that I firmly believe in and bringing those to life.
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I don't care what color the parents are. I don't care if it's a giraffe and a fish living together. If they're raising children who believe they're honored and loved, that's all that's important.
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Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.
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The Bush Doctrine is a prescription for permanent war for permanent peace, though wars are the death of republics.
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I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that 'the world' would decline to recognize them.
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We've got to take confrontation out of the centre of politics. With fighting, no one wins; with dialogue, everyone wins.
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Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning.
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The market is so competitive. There are so many products that are similar. So we are forced to invest in innovative research in new products that are one or two years ahead of the market.
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To me, that means getting back to the point where our Constitution means that you don't tap people's phones and poke into their e-mail and you don't arrest people and keep them hidden for a year and a half without charging them.
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I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.
