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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Politics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents.
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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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There is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most mortifying disappointments, the most shocking insults; and, what is severer than all, the presumptuous judgement of the ignorant upon their designs.
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James Baldwin is probably the biggest influence on me from a literary perspective.
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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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May the Lord our God prepare us for every event, then comes Life or Death - it is no great matter.
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It is good to be a cynic-it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all. Universal suicide is the most logical thing in the world-we reject it only because of our primitive cowardice and childish fear of the dark. If we were sensible we would seek death-the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.
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What I'm after is not living to 1,000. I'm after letting people avoid death for as long as they want to.
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Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.
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I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
