Helen Keller Quotes
My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.
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I'm from Iowa Falls, Iowa. My dad was a small-town lawyer, and my mom was a pharmacist. She worked at Swartz Drug. I have five older brothers.
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You're either ghetto or you're not.
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There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.
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Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.
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I watched so many movies when I was a kid, and I'd watch them over and over.
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A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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My cousin once told me, 'You're tall, you're handsome - and you're gonna have to apologize for it the rest of your life.' He imparted that information to me.
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Clothes are interesting and they're there to be played with. I like the idea of costume rather than fashion.
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I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship.
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My white counterparts are always pushing the line, and they are fearless, so why can't I do that, too?
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It is easy but inaccurate to label any legislation which makes it easier for working families to combine family and work responsibilities 'job killers.'
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It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.
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My mother was from Mississippi, or is from 'Mississippi;' my father was from Alabama. He speaks about conditions in Mississippi and Alabama. They were really the poster children for the bad public laws that segregated, according to race, in our country.
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And also I think particularly as a female, you're taught to be defensive your whole life. You're taught not to be aggressive.
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It was in 1969 that I was able to give up my administrative responsibility. As I worked hard my research never suffered during this period and as a matter of fact these were probably some of my most productive years.
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Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost;That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world.
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But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world -- a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors.
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Isn't there a statute of limitation on playing the poor abused victim?
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We're often afraid to do anything unless we know we can do it extremely well. But we get to Carnegie Hall by practicing. I remember how freeing it was several years ago to read in an interview with Joan Baez that some of Bob Dylan's early songs weren't so wonderful. We have this image of genius springing fully grown out of Zeus' forehead.
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My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.
