Helen Keller Quotes
The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them.
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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I'm not slim. I'm a curvy girl: I've got thighs and a bum. I don't mind baring the fact that I've got a bit of cellulite because everybody has. I find it off-putting when everybody on telly is the same size or looks the same build. For me, it's important for people to watch someone normal.
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Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.
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If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.
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Any powerful technology can be abused.
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The beautiful thing about the NFL season is to see a team come together after they get to know each other in the spring and summer. You then go through adversity together and see how you respond. The teams that can respond in a positive way are the teams that are going to be there in the end.
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It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.
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I think that Pebble Beach is my favorite golf course to go to. I think Augusta is my favorite place to go play golf.
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The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
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Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.
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Many people in the West do not realise how oppressive some Muslim states are - both for men and for women. This is a cultural issue, not an Islamic one.
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Louisiana commenced her existence as a state under a code of laws differing from all the other states which were founded on the common law, in that its code, a new one, was founded mainly on the Civil Law and the Code Napoleon of France.
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Obviously, you need talent to do well in your sport, but I think hard work goes a long way. You need to be lucky within the sport too, though. In badminton, you can benefit from good draws and people getting injured.
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Scotland is the Canada of England!
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People who prepare false or fraudulent tax returns risk criminal prosecution and, upon conviction, substantial time in jail.
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Republicans are people who, if you were drowning 50 feet from shore, would throw you a 25-foot rope and tell you to swim the other 25 feet because it would be good for your character. Democrats would throw you a hundred-foot rope and then walk away looking for other good deeds to do.
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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them.
