Helen Keller Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.
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I was a tomboy.
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Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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We go after legacies because we just know that, sooner or later, people will understand what we bring to this culture and bring to the game.
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I can be very ordinary looking.
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
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Even if it was a difficult operation to copy a song, it only takes one person to do it. After that the spread of the song via the Internet or other means of propagation is only limited by the honesty of the users.
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Stephen Colbert used to be my friend. I even signed the poor baby's cast when he hurt his hand.
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I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.
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Sometimes, success almost haunts you. You want to be the best at everything you do and know you have to work hard.
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There's apparently soccer leagues that they've set up with young Indian girls.
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I gave up the notion of writing the life of Joan of Arc, as I found that there was absolutely no new material to be gleaned on her history - in fact, she had been thrashed out.
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The whole point of having great characters is the opportunity to explore them more deeply with time, re-interpreting them for each new age.
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If the Senate can't perform its most basic responsibilities, I worry about how we're going to make the tough decisions and do the hard work that will be necessary to get our country on a path to fiscal solvency.
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In 1980, during my sophomore year at MIT, I realized that the school didn't have a student space organization. I made posters for a group I called Students for the Exploration and Development of Space and put them up all over campus. Thirty-five people showed up. It was the first thing I ever organized, and it took off!
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When in these fresh mornings I go into my garden before anyone is awake, I go for the time being into perfect happiness. In this hour divinely fresh and still, the fair face of every flower salutes me with a silent joy. . . . All the cares, perplexities, and griefs of existence, all the burdens of life slip from my shoulders and leave me with the heart of a little child that asks nothing beyond the present moment of innocent bliss.
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I have a sort of inner sense for scale.
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Joy is a spiritual element that gives vicissitudes unity and significance.
