Sara Teasdale Quotes
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I never cared about modeling. As a model, you're powerless.
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You can learn from everyone, the president or the cleaner. You need teachers in life, but they're not always school teachers or professors. You learn from ordinary people. You learn from travel, from just walking down the street.
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I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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In many ways, anger is a misdirected plea for love.
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I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.
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When people go through tragic circumstances, it's not that there is no love there, but it's so hard to deal with and sometimes the gap starts to happen.
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Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.
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By doing, you become employable. It doesn't matter what the job is; by working, you learn new things, meet new people and are exposed to new ideas.
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
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I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.
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Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
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I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.
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With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?
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My brother's 21 years older than me, so I grew up doing more adult things. Like listening to old music.
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'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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It's such a private thing. It's a huge decision. It's not like you wake up one day and say, 'Oh, I'm going to change my sex - won't that be fun?'
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I did make a choice when I got away from baseball to be there to get my kids off to college.
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My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts.
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The Beatles were raw musically, but I think they really had something.
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Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
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It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.
