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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You have to turn the noise off a little bit. Fortunately, I'm not really on social media. I've been able to live in a bit of a black hole.
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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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Unfortunately, the reporters ask the same questions over and over again. When reporters keep asking the same questions, they've got to recognize I may hear these questions 20 to 30 times in a matter of days. It gets to the point where I think, 'Read the other interviews!'
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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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Whatever we try - to be rich, to be happy - death is unavoidable. It doesn't matter how much money you have; it doesn't matter how much love you have. At the end of the day, it's all heading that way.
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Health care is, at its core, about improving the odds of life in its struggle against death. Of extending that game which we will all lose, each and every one of us unto eternity, extending it another year or month or second.
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I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
