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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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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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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Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.
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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 cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
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Great dad. Yeah, he would ask me for money on birthdays and, you know, inappropriate times. And I just wrote him off like, 'You're not a father.' I just learned you cannot emotionally invest in people who are not attainable.
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I have a good poker face because I am half-dead inside.
Colson Whitehead -
In my own life if I knew I was going to pass away I'd love to sit down and resolve every issue so I could go peacefully.
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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.
