Helen Keller Quotes
What really counts in life is the quiet meeting of every difficulty with the determination to get out of it all the good there is.
Quotes to Explore
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It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.
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Football was what I was good at, and it was what I loved.
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I get really excited about other female acts. I feel inspired when I see another women succeeding in music because it makes me realize that if they can do it, I can do it.
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On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
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I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash together to make a blob of a sentence that bears some likeness to reason and sense.
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
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The music of the Clovers and Spaniels and the rest was like candy to me. I couldn't get enough; my teachers probably thought I had attention deficit disorder.
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I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
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In the beginning, when I first found out I had a disease that was incurable, emotionally I had to get used to the idea of being sick before I could think about making any other major decisions in my life.
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I do everything I can to have a diverse career because I just want to have options. I know that I can do Hamlet or I can do Stanley Kowalski, you know.
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If supporters of equality for women want to vote for the best candidate, they must look to a person regardless of gender and must disregard the gender of political opponents.
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Families don't make projects for five years, they make projects for generations.
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I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that.
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I'm very happy for the Contreras family. They're out. Now they've got a chance to experience life the way I did as a kid. You know, his kids are going to have a real chance in life now, and the same way that I had it.
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I don't like being lied to.
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R is for wussies if you're talking about blood and guts.
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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For a spy novelist like me, the Edward J. Snowden story has everything. A man driven by ego and idealism - can anyone ever distinguish the two? - leaves his job and his beautiful girlfriend behind. He must tell the world the Panopticon has arrived. His masters vow to punish him, and he heads for Moscow in a desperate search for refuge.
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I think team sports probably teach you more about giving - about being unselfish and being flexible.
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I have not suffered a lot for Christ, but I want to tell you that those times that I have suffered and I knew it was for Jesus, have been some of the happiest times of my entire life.
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It is humankind's duty to respect all life, not only animals have feelings but even also trees and plants.
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What really counts in life is the quiet meeting of every difficulty with the determination to get out of it all the good there is.
