Helen Keller Quotes
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I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it.
Rainbow Rowell
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Don't underestimate your opponent, but don't overestimate them, either.
Nancy Pelosi
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When you're on top, you're on top.
Venus Williams
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Success can allow you to try for greatness, can give you an opportunity to take a chance on something. I'm very blessed to have the success that I've had, and that's given me so many opportunities to work on being great.
Orlando Bloom
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Coming over to Europe you can always put on weight really easily because you are not doing your normal routine at home. It is just a bit more discipline and not eating breads and pastas which are my favourite foods in the entire world.
Sally Pearson
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You know, when I eat three peas, I'm pregnant. When I visit a city, I'm buying a house.
Vanessa Paradis
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I am a character actress. Well, let's say, I am a leading character actress who does interesting, odd parts.
Imelda Staunton
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You can't be happy if you're not tolerably happy with yourself. The addition of friends adds immeasurably to life.
Patrick O'Brian
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And now when we hear that Iran and Iraq plan to cooperate more closely and that a fundamentalist is coming to power in Tehran - a man about whom we cannot be sure that he is absolutely averse to terrorism - it is very worrisome.
Otto Schily
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We become sphynxes, though fake, up to the point we no longer know who we are.
Fernando Pessoa
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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.
Lewis Mumford
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In general, I never think it is a good idea to try to recreate past successes. You have to strike out on your own, for better or worse.
Mary Beard
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Come on, I'm a television star. Nobody on television is curing cancer. I've had a great ride, and I'm very honored to have been in this business. I'm happy if I managed to affect people in a positive way.
David Hasselhoff
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Perhaps more than anything else, failure to recognize the precariousness and fickleness of confidence - especially in cases in which large short-term debts need to be rolled over continuously - is the key factor that gives rise to the this-time-is-different syndrome. Highly indebted governments, banks, or corporations can seem to be merrily rolling along for an extended period, when bang! - confidence collapses, lenders disappear, and a crisis hits.
Carmen Reinhart
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There's no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide.
Rahm Emanuel
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Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.
Marcus Aurelius
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Look the world straight in the eye.
Helen Keller
