Evelyn Beatrice Hall Quotes
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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I was joking with someone about this the other day. They were like, 'You talk about Applebee's as if it was your ex.' I miss it; I miss setting up tables at 6 A.M.
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It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.
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When I work with other people, I don't have to do that - it's because I love to do it and I want to do it.
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Be mobile at all times, even if it causes you suffering or feelings of loneliness. Unless you're willing to do that, you're never going to get the bigger rewards.
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I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.
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I don't invest in companies where my mental model is that they need to get themselves acquired in the next few years - or ever.
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When I was young, I struggled with authorship: with everything the word meant and failed to mean. Irish poetry was heavy with custom. Sometimes at night, when I tried to write, a ghost hand seemed to hold mine. Where could my life, my language fit in?
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Sometimes you want a Part Two in your life.
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I had never believed I had a soul until then, when it laid bare a hurt more deep than any part of me could bear.
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Rien ne réussit comme le succès.
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I wouldn't be who I am without my husband, who handled the business end of Donna Karan so I could be creative.
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Deal faithfully and truly with your own soul.
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When I'm working, I try to be serious and rest where I can. I just mark in rehearsals. I still train. I warm up. And I still take lessons from this unbelievable teacher in New York, Joan Lader. I try to be stretched and ready to go.
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I am constantly hustling and finding new things. You try to manage so you don't look back and see huge gaps of time that you missed with your family.
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I remember very much there in Falls Church there was a creek that was flowing down into 4 Mile Run. I believe it's now covered up where it goes under Columbia Street. I found a whole family of weasels down there.
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Some people have said that I can 'hear' a hit song, meaning that I can tell the first time a song is played for me if it has potential. I have been able to hear some of the hits that way, but I can also 'feel' one.
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I'm definitely not a guy that comes in the dressing room saying, "Hey, everybody, what a wonderful life." I'm usually brooding about something I think is wrong. I care so much about getting the music right, and if I think someone's slacking I get very upset about that. I just can't go on stage and say, "Another day, another dollar," which I've heard a few people say: I can't go along with that at all. It's got to be as good as you can do - to my own detriment.
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The advantage of meditating upon life and death is being able to say anything at all about them.
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The lesson is clear: estimates of causes of death are warped by media coverage. ... The world in our heads is not a precise replica of reality; our expectations about the frequency of events are distorted by the prevalence and emotional intensity of the messages to which we are exposed.
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You are a shithead, Williamson. If you can't think on your feet you oughta keep your mouth shut.
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I knew from the minute I saw her Hillary that if I got involved with her I would fall in love with her.
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I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
