Helen Keller Quotes
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
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Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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I definitely want my fans to know that I'm here to stay, and I'm going to continue to give them hot music.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov
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People in Hollywood are going make pictures where ever it's the least expensive to make them.
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You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it.
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At a person-to-person level, I think that there's always something to be said for having some empathy for the folks who really, really disagree with you about a given topic.
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Even the most left-wing politicians worship wealth creation - as the political-action-committee collection plate is passed.
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The more I come to know about the outside world's perception of China, the more I feel there are all sorts of misunderstandings, and to a certain extent, people do not get the full picture from the media. A lot of foreigners have few opportunities to visit China, and a lot of Chinese people do not have the chance to go to Europe or to the West.
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It's not easy to play 162 games and be focused the whole time. It takes a lot out of you.
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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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'It's a Wonderful Life' was a mainstream Hollywood movie about faith, redemption, religion, and it was rated G.
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There are no ordinary moments.
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I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time studying history and science.
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Everybody thinks I'm very clean and sort of upright, don't they?
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I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music.
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When people talk of the Freedom of Writing, Speaking, or thinking, I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
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Jill Clayburgh's life so closely paralleled mine, I feel as though a part of me lived a little through her and died a little with her.
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I want to know how these very people who are against war because of loss of life can possibly be the same people who are for abortion? They are the same people who are for animal rights, but they are not for the rights of the unborn.
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Life isn't about what you get, it's about what you DO with what you get.
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I click on the deaths and read the names carefully, memorising them. Because here’s the simple truth—if I hadn’t taken the ship off Phydus, people like ***** and ******* would still be alive. And while I could say that a shorter life with feelings is better than a longer life without, the dead can’t tell me their side.
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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
