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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When I'm putting some communication out on Twitter or Facebook or Instagram, I think that it's helping me, my brain, you know, because it's always somehow stimulated by people who are sending things to me. And it works both ways. It's great. My brain is very happy about it.
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I relate to the feeling that Da Vinci was often plagued by the idea that what he did wasn't good enough, that he was his harshest critic. He'd sometimes destroy what he was working on.
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I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.
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If you want to have a nonmiraculous day, I suggest that newspaper and caffeine form the crux of your morning regimen. Listen to the morning news while you're in the shower, read the headlines as you are walking out the door, make sure you're keeping tabs on everything: the wars, the economy, the gossip, the natural disasters. . . But if you want the day ahead to be full of miracles, then spend some time each morning with God.
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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.
