Sara Teasdale Quotes
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I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
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I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China's Communists.
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I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
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One of the most effective tools that the Cheney-Bush junta has used to marginalize dissenting or even mildly inquisitive American citizens has been the accusation of being unpatriotic.
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Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
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Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.
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Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.
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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
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'Entourage' was a show that existed around wish-fulfillment. People watched it because they wanted to believe they could go on private jets and be hanging out in Hollywood, but as a show, comedically, it was not funny. Not a funny show. It's funny, ironically, because of how terrible it is.
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I think we're all good and bad, but good's not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and let the bad out, and then you can be funny.
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If you want to play the good roles, spend more time in in college and in acting class than you do in the gym, and you'll have the career you want.
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Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.
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I was successful with mediocre material because of a good recording voice that people really liked at that time.
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I feel a tremendous sense of accomplishment. Everything is in tune: the voice, the type of music, who I am and who people think I am.
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To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good. To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.
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I am made of endless hours. Not just split seconds.
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What is the meaning of human life, or, for that matter, of the life of any creature? To know the answer to this question means to be religious. You ask: Does it make any sense, then, to pose this question? I answer: The man who regards his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.
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Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?
