Hal Borland Quotes
A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
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Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
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It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.
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I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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Growing up, I was into 'Power Rangers.'
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I'm blonde and tanned and normal-sized! I'm sweet, shy, funny, have a big heart and I'm nice - and I like to eat.
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I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
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I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.
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My aunt took me to see 'Salad Days' when I was seven. This story of a magic piano that infects everyone who hears it infected me, too. It was a Road to Damascus moment in my life.
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As long as you believe in Him, no matter what happens in your life, understand that it's all for a purpose.
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A good president needs a big comfort zone. He should be able to treat enemies as opportunities, appear authentic in joy and grief, stay cool under the hot lights.
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Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.
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If I could do what Hilary Mantel does, I would probably do that. She is more intelligent and a better researcher and knows more what she's about than I do.
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My father had a real short fuse. He had a tough life - had to support his mother and brother at a very young age when his dad's farm collapsed. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one. My father was full of terrifying anger.
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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
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It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
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To me, there is nothing like the excitement and unique experience of a live orchestra playing.
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I don't think that it's appropriate for the government to say, in effect, we're going to slow down the growth of housing or that we're going to slow down the extension of the highway and the freeway system.
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A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
