Helen Keller Quotes
Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation.
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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Big league defense is going to get outs most times.
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I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't do it, but I also wanted to make sure it was balanced with the proper attention to his studies.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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When I feel my blood sugar getting off, I drink a glass of kale juice. It's so disgusting you don't want to eat anything!
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My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face.
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It doesn't matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the movie's not entertaining, if the story's not entertaining.
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I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.
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Be good to others, that will protect you against evil.
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The standards are being lowered, not just on the Internet, but in all of news and media.
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I drink a lot of water and I never leave the house without putting on moisturizer and lip gloss.
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Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity.
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During my time I had some very difficult years, and I had very pronounced competition, all by men.
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Every time I went out there I performed the best that I could and it was time to step back and clear my mind.
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A friend of mine once told me that I can't screw up when I play my own music. I also take voice lessons, play other peoples' songs out of music books, and occasionally figure out how to play other people's music from records. This keeps my ears, fingers, and mind working.
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An open mind is the secret in making friends.
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Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation.
