Helen Keller Quotes
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
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You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
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Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
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I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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I am what they call a chubby-skinny guy. I appear to be normal and have the look of an in-shape man, but if we were to go to a pool party I would go with my shirt on.
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You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs.
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I will not get very far with this attitude.
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Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.
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Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.
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The first thing many tourists see in Hawaii is concrete - a long dreary stretch of it through landscapes dominated by sad, cheap apartment buildings and almost entirely denuded of plant life.
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I would never say somebody had to vote for anybody. That would be terrible. I haven't said that.
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A lioness has got a lot more power than the lion likes to think she has.
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Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
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I don't like the info-dump, as it's known.
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The idea that our mental life is affected by hidden causes is a mainstay of psychology.
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Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
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A formally harmonious product needs no decoration; it should be elevated through pure form.
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It's fantastic to strive towards a nice life where you eat nice organic food and your children go to a nice school and you can afford nice clothes and nice perfume and the hypoallergenic make-up. But there's never a day goes by, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, that I don't think about where I'm from.
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I felt very maternal around eight months. And I thought I couldn't become any more until I saw the baby... But it happened during my labor because I had a very strong connection with my child. I felt like when I was having contractions, I envisioned my child pushing through a very heavy door. And I imagined this tiny infant doing all the work, so I couldn't think about my own pain... We were talking. I know it sounds crazy, but I felt a communication.
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I'm probably one of the most competitive people ever.
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From my parents, I learned a very strong work ethic, and all of my brothers and sisters all worked from the earliest days of life right through to the present time.
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It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
