Helen Keller Quotes
Faith is a mockery if it does not teach us that we can build a more complete and beautiful world.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.
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If large numbers of people believe they have no shot at a better life in the future, they will work less hard and generate fewer new ideas and businesses. The economy, as a whole, will be poorer.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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It used to be that you needed a $500-million-a-year company in order to reach a worldwide audience of consumers. Now, all you need is a Steam account. That changes a whole bunch of stuff. It's kind of a boring 'gee, information processing changes a stuff' story, but it's going to have an impact on every single company.
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I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.
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We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.
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I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.
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To sing a song is quite different than to write a poem. I'm not and never will be a novelist, but to write a novel is not the same thing as writing a play. There is a difference in form, but essentially what you're after is the same thing.
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I hear so many writers say - and these are writers that I trust completely - 'I just started hearing a voice', or, 'The characters came to life'. I am filled with loathing for my own characters when I hear that because they do nothing of the sort. Left to their own devices, they do nothing but drink coffee and complain about their lives.
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Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it's just a daisy in a jelly glass.
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I have known that I wanted to be a designer since I was 8 years old.
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I think the media loves taking the most absurd clips for a sport that has become congressional politics.
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It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.
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You go through the gate. If the gate’s closed you go over the fence. If the fence is too high, we’ll pole-vault. If that doesn’t work, we’ll parachute in. But we are going to get health care reform passed for the American people.
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The professor was a bore on a Guggenheim, a long-range drone, and international ballistic fossil. I spent the whole hour drawing little pictures of hanged men.
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In praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar.
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Ever since the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, the Muslim world has been in slow decline relative to the west. With Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and the creeping British annexation of Muslim India, that decline took on a malign aspect.
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We stand separate from the world because of our gifts. Never forget that, because you may be sure the world never will.
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You know, my world may look like a pile of shit, but at least I sometimes get to sit on top of it.
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We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.
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Faith is a mockery if it does not teach us that we can build a more complete and beautiful world.
