Helen Keller Quotes
The few who profit from the labor of the masses want to organize the workers into an army which will protect the interests of the capitalists.
Quotes to Explore
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I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer.
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My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity.
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One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
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I prefer atrophy over exercise any day.
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I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in that. That's a great person; they're going to be a great doctor.
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As an actor, I come to set, and I have already broken the character down by writing a poem about the character. I try to write in his voice, the way he would write it.
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It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?'
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I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding after having kids, like Mary King, but people say that you lose your nerve after you have kids. It's the risk.
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A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.
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There have been many gay knights in the past - like Sir Noel Coward or Sir John Gielgud.
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I begin to perceive that I am a woman. What that is, heaven knows... the philosophy is yet to be written, there is a world to be explored.
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I hate touchy-feely things.
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If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check.
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Postremo nemo aegrotus quidquam somniat tam infandum, quod non aliquis dicat philosophus.
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Everyone knows people like that: You're looking at their milky, glazed-over eyes, and you know they're not listening.
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I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness.
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It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.
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All I try to do is put as many colors as I can on the canvas every night.
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.
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Music is a very big participant in everything I do, from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed.
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I couldn't do ventriloquism. I don't have any interest in splitting myself in two, the way a ventriloquist does — half-himself, half the dummy on his knee.
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The few who profit from the labor of the masses want to organize the workers into an army which will protect the interests of the capitalists.
