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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Harpo Marx looks like a musical comedy.
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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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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature. Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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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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My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.
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Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.
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'True love gives true love of the best: Then take,' I cried, 'my heart to thee!' The very heart from out my breast I plucked, I gave it willingly; Her very heart she gave to me - Then died the glory from the west.In the gray light I saw her face, And it was withered, old, and gray; The flowers were fading in their place, Were fading with the fading day.
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What we become as our lives evolve depends on the quality of our experiences here and now.
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I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
