Helen Keller Quotes
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Generally, what adults want to know is my background, why I write what I write, and very personal insights that some say are inspiring.
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I was a teenage girl once. I was not an overweight teenage girl, but I had really bad acne when I was 11 or 12 years old. It was heart-rending, and people made fun of me. People whispered when I walked by in the hallways, and I was sure they were whispering about me. My adult perspective is maybe they weren't.
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When you think of all the conflicts we have - whether those conflicts are local, whether they are regional or global - these conflicts are often over the management, the distribution of resources. If these resources are very valuable, if these resources are scarce, if these resources are degraded, there is going to be competition.
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But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.
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People used to think of me as a comedy actor.
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For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
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I left Montana in Spring of 1866, for Utah, arriving at Salt Lake city during the summer.
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Serious drama in a significant degree began at Harvard in the 1880s. In 1881, the Cercle Francais initiated the annual French play, and shortly afterwards the German and Spanish clubs added their productions.
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I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.
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I'm sorry to say I'm very lizard-like. My skin is dry, so covering my face in greasy antioxidants is a better alternative.
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Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information.
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If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping.
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Drama class was one of the only areas at school I responded to.
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I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was - because I had graphic instances of it - handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, 'I don't want Jean-Luc Picard in my movie' - and this was compounded by X-Men as well.
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Perhaps the values of socialists can only be realized by socialists in a nonsocialist society.
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I think to describe 'The Gates' as a genre show is tricky because when you think of what's a vampire show or what's a supernatural kind of thing, I think other shows... maybe focus on that element probably slightly more than our show does.
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You can try to plan your career, but not marriage.
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Instituting equal pay is especially important because families in our country increasingly rely on women's wages to make ends meet. When women bring home less money each day, it means they have less for the everyday needs of their families - groceries, rent, child care, and doctors' visits.
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A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
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Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned - it is only through seriousness of purpose and persistence that we ultimately carry the day. We might liken it to riding a bicycle. You stay upright and move forward so long as you keep up the momentum.
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The job of president is to motivate, to inspire, to be side by side with people making sure that they develop all their capacities and that I remove all the obstacles they have to grow by themselves.
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Emotions aren't the obstacles to a successful negotiation; they are the means.
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Is it better to be extremely ambitious, or rather modest? Probably the latter is safer; but I hate safety, and would rather fail gloriously than dingily succeed.
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You will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles.
