Helen Keller Quotes
Make the most of every sense; glory in all the facets of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you...
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I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.
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And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.
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I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.
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The crown of literature is poetry.
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All diseases run into one, old age.
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I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.
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Everyone has their opinion, and if no one criticizes, how will I improve my work?
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Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
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I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
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My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
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I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
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The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.
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Congress needs to toughen the laws protecting elections and make clear that anyone interfering with democracy will pay a stiff price.
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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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I had a cyst on my tonsils, and I couldn't sing. I had to have an operation.
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I did not stop dancing; I did take two years off to get myself together.
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The difference between kitties and humans is that we are aware of our mortal condition, and the burden of consciousness is to evoke and embody and explore the coordinates of our condition.
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Sometimes when you really try to be earnest, everything disappears. If you really try to make a romantic movie, the first thing that goes out the window is the romance or real passion. It suddenly becomes cute-ville or cozy-ville. It's another world other than life.
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In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.
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Their virtues lived in their children. The family changed its persons but not its manners, and they continued a blessing to the world from generation to generation.
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Together we can make a change of the world. Together we can help to stop racism. Together we can help to stop prejudice. We can help the world live without fear. It's our only hope, without hope we are lost.
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Make the most of every sense; glory in all the facets of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you...
