Evelyn Beatrice Hall Quotes
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All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.
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Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
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I love all sorts of music. I'm really into Damian Rice and Amos Lee.
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It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
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And he was going to give me a song, because I'm a singer and I wanted to sing in everything.
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I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.
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At some point in our life, each of us is very likely to be a care getter or a care giver or both.
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Any work of science, no matter what its point of departure, cannot become fully convincing until it crosses the boundary between the theoretical and the experimental: Experimentation must give way to argument, and argument must have recourse to experimentation.
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We must learn to tell ourselves the truth on the basis of God’s Word.
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Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent thing that undermines people the way rust weakens iron ... Like physical pain that becomes chronic, it is miserable not so much because it is intolerable in the moment as because it is intolerable to have known it in the moments gone and to look forward only to knowing it in the moments to come.
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What we really need to avoid is this epidemic of false positivism and false happiness, which says if it hurts, it must be bad. Sometimes it hurts because you have a conscience.
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People sometimes see an image and without knowing the surrounding patterns draw false conclusions.
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This is a dream as old as America itself: give me a piece of land to call my own, a little town where everyone knows my name.
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Still reading but learning a lot about true education and the process of guiding our children in their educational pursuits.
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It's a balancing act of you feel horrible that you're away but there is something about the road that is rather liberating.
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The readers and the hearers like my books, And yet some writers cannot them digest; But what care I? for when I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.
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There’s nothing like having your girlfriend talk in geological time to make you feel insignificant.
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The world stretches before me, the vast world of the big, the little, and the medium.
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Good food is an amazing blessing. Whenever you can sit down at a table, eat food that is extremely delicious, and are surrounded by people you love...it's: Wow, life is good.
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Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.
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The crowning blessing of life-to be born with a bias to some pursuit.
