Helen Keller Quotes
People are too prone to think that the actual is the limit of possibility. They believe that all that has been done is all that can be done.
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In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
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My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.
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I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased.
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Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.
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Personally, fame never really played any part in our family life.
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Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.
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Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
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Vig used to call me 'Elf boy', and I'd call him 'filthy human'. As an Elf, I never got a scratch on me, never got dirty. And Vig would come out with blood and sweat all over him. And he'd say to me, 'Oh, go manicure your nails.'
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The environmental problems of developing countries are not the side effects of excessive industrialisation but reflect the inadequacy of development.
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The first TV show I worked on was with the guys from 'Little Britian,' Matt Lucas and David Walliams, who did a show in 1995 I directed, 'Mash and Peas.'
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I like to relax a lot the night before a race. I like having people around me. I don't like being on my own, particularly. Music helps psych you up, too.
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Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is how I grew up and these are my influences.
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The Pre-Raphaelites, while very bothered by what the establishment thought of them, also utterly rebelled against it. In everything - social, sexual, emotional - they were out on a limb, pushing the boundaries.
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I am not interested when people refer to a quarter or this year because the way I look at a country is what are its prospects over the next 20-30 years, and India's are good.
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All writers behave badly. All people behave badly.
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They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.
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What's lost in this whole debate, unfortunately, is that Social Security is not a giveaway where we take money to give to other people. It's a contract with the government... that's worked for 75 years. It's the most successful government program that we've ever had.
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I am a huge fan of proselytizing. I am a huge fan of speaking your mind. The only way we can share the universe... is by talking very strongly about what we believe.
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You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.
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It's fantastic that the world is becoming more open to different ways of working, but we still have a long way to go in terms of changing perceptions.
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People are too prone to think that the actual is the limit of possibility. They believe that all that has been done is all that can be done.
