Sarah Zettel Quotes
Fantasy is, of course, booming, and I think it's beginning to stretch its range as well.
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I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.
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A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.
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I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of Confucius, Mencius, Chaucer and Shakespeare and Victor Hugo are looking over their shoulders.
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I do not watch horror films. At all. I am not a horror film girl; I don't have the stomach for it. I've seen a few in my lifetime, like 'The Shining' or 'Carrie,' but I can't sleep for, like, a week after I see something like that.
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Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.
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Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
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My scientific pursuits have led to many opportunities and responsibilities beyond those of simply doing research. For example, as a beginning graduate student, it never occurred to me that the life of a scientist could involve so much travel, something that I have always loved.
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I am not in a hurry to do Hindi films. If it is destined, when it has to happen, it will.
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Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.
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Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will.
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If I lose my job at a furniture factory where I've worked for decades, no amount of cheaper toys and raincoats at Wal-Mart is going to make me whole again.
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We make butterflies by feeding caterpillars, not by trying to paste wings on them. Kids need to like themselves the way they are, and we can help them develop a positive self-image.
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I wanna be your t-shirt when it's wet, I wanna be your shower when you sweat.
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He was our Jackie Robinson, ... He wanted to make sure you had a place to live, that you were getting food to eat. Some guys, they only learned enough English to order one thing. He wanted to make sure you had money. If you didn't have money for something, he would give it to you.
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In early times, it was easier to control a million people than to kill a million. Today, it is infinitely easier to to kill a million people than to control a million.
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A slave-holder cannot hold a slave without putting himself or his deputy in the cage for holding the slave.
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Simply by living in this particular time and space, you're doing something nearly 100% of all other humans ever never could. Don't waste it.
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These warm lovers of life, born under dancing stars, how without them was life tolerable for those, such as himself, whose bias was towards sadness, their stars cloud-hidden when their spirits woke to life....In this world, surely, there should always be a mating between the lovers of life and the endurers of it, in couples they should find a causeway for their feet and walk it together, the star-shine of the one comforting the darkness of the other.
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Fantasy is, of course, booming, and I think it's beginning to stretch its range as well.
