E. J. Dionne Quotes
Hope is different from optimism. Hope is a tough virtue, not a psychological predisposition. Hope insists on taking facts and reason into account and still insisting that improvement ... is always a real possibility.
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On my 50th birthday in 2005, my discount-wielding AARP card came in the mail. I hurled it in the trash, put on something fabulous, and had a decadent meal. Just the thought of putting it in my wallet felt like a concession.
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And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful.
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I think a person has to just be herself.
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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We are not the same India that the world saw in the 1970s and '80s. Hence, we have a responsibility to live up to the pedestal on which we have been put.
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I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
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When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'
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When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.
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I am happy that thousands of students, young designers and fashion people will be able to see and study my work in every aspect of it.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.
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If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
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I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.
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You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
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I've always wanted to play Peter Parker, obviously.
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The "paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality "ought to be."
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See, if you put a musician in a place where he has to do something different from what he does all the time, then he can do that - but he's got to think differently in order to do it. He's got to play above what he knows - far above it. I've always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that's where great art and music happens.
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People talk about method actors, meaning someone that's prepared very, very well, or whatever they mean when they talk about it. But the right method is whatever works for you. And what works for me on any given day is going to be different.
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There is a phrase in French, which means 'to miss.' To pass by. To not be able to stop. You love someone and someone loves you, but it just can't work for different reasons.
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Hope is different from optimism. Hope is a tough virtue, not a psychological predisposition. Hope insists on taking facts and reason into account and still insisting that improvement ... is always a real possibility.
