Helen Keller Quotes
It gives me a deep comforting sense that Things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.
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I remember going into a bookshop, and the only book I saw with a black child on the cover was 'A Thief in the Village' by James Berry, and I thought, 'Is this still the state of publishing?' Then I thought, 'Either I can whine about it or try to do something about it.'
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The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.
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I get these weird divine feelings. They're, like, so strong I can't shake them.
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A lot of cable television is shot on a single camera. Our eyes are more trained to that. It takes the camera off the crane, away from observing the action, to becoming a character in the story along with everyone else. People are getting used to that.
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I just am committed wholeheartedly to theatre with no intermission.
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To be honest, my usual makeup is the same as in my music video looks.
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I presumed the president was being truthful until a series of events undercut that confidence.
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I suffered from severe depression for over a decade. My condition deteriorated steadily. I was suicidal.
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I haven't seen kids in years who have holes in the knees of their jeans. Now you go buy jeans with holes in them.
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In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable.
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Many Americans are unaware that we still have a large population of working families, elderly, and children who rely on emergency food pantries, shelters, and other resources to meet their nutritional needs.
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John Irwin became one of the greatest peace workers in Northern Ireland.
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What I enjoy most about being on stage is that the natural instruments give you a greater freedom with texture. When you use natural instruments they have their own resonance.
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Art is a by-product of an honest and successful attempt to do something well.
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It is not my wish to lounge about the college and fatten on a fellowship all my days. I am always trying to look upon a college life as a medium not an end.
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If you dont like the way your life is going, redesign it. Redeem the years you lost. Restore your vision, revive your passion for living, and reclaim what was dormant inside of you. I cannot give you the dream but I can give you the tools to reach the dreams you have inside.
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Your earning ability today is largely dependent upon your knowledge, skill and your ability to combine that knowledge and skill in such a way that you contribute value for which customers are going to pay.
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You don't need fancy sneakers to run fast
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Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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Occasionally I play the music for my mother when she demands to hear it and she always just says, 'Who is that singing? I don't like the singing.' And then she says 'Who's doing all that bumpety-bump noise?' It's all noise backing up horrible singing as far as she's concerned. She's not a show-biz mother.
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Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in eternity.
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As we have learned from ObamaCare, young people are not considered adults until age 26, at which point they are finally forced to get off their parents' health care plans. The old motto was 'Old enough to fight, old enough to vote.' The new motto is: 'Not old enough to buy your own health insurance, not old enough to vote.'
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Dare we face the question of just how much of the darkness around us is of our own making?
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It gives me a deep comforting sense that Things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.
