Helen Keller Quotes
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North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.
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I am getting to that age where I am too old to play the boy next door and too young to play Uncle Fester.
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I just want to do my job.
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Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.
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I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in that. That's a great person; they're going to be a great doctor.
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Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?
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Do you honestly think that if Senator Santorum becomes president, we're going to get rid of contraceptives?
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When I write a song, it comes from the heart and is based on a specific experience. You can't really say that one experience is greater than another, because all of your experiences take you through life on this journey.
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In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.
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The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
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I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it.
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I'm pretty much a straight guy on 'The Office.' We can't all be crazies. You need some balance.
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I grew up watching 'Grease,' and 'Grease 2.' I fantasized about walking through school halls and busting out in a song. At that time, I was too much of a chicken to do so. I'd love the challenge now.
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Being in love is the best thing in my life.
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The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television don't know the first thing about journalism. They are just there stirring up a hockey game.
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Although I am a Christian, I am not even close to perfect.
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
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McCullers is one of those rare writers who remembers what childhood is like. Not incidents, which anyone can recall, but states of mind, which are so difficult to recreate.
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Criticism in good faith is good. When it's targeted solely to destruction, I'm not interested.
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It's kind of hard to work with Tom Cruise and not be aware that you're working with one of the biggest movie stars in the world.
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I'm sort of half-Chilean at this point anyway, half-Argentine. This is where I have been living and working for a long time now.
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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
