Nan Kempner Quotes
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To allot God a secondary place in life was, to me, inconceivable. Though He is the sole Owner of the cosmos, silently showering us with gifts from life to life, one thing yet remains which He does not own, and which each human heart is empowered to withhold or bestow - man's love.
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My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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Why is it that our young kids all across America can solve the most complex problems in a video game involving executive decision making and analytical thinking, yet we accept the fact that they can't add or read?
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I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
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It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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I'm a feminist in the true sense of the word. It's about equality.
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I admire all people who are trying to be a good power in this chaotic world.
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Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its borders.
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My idea of fast food is a mallard.
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Fat Joe is signed to Fat Joe. I have a distribution deal for my label. I'm independent. I'm very happy with that.
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'SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half.
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Living without hate for people is almost impossible.
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If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that.
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The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.
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The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
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We cannot afford to spend millions and millions over nuclear arms when there is poverty and unemployment all around us.
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Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.
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I was thinking 'Love Story', obviously, was a romantic film of that time.
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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Many professors are Marxists or other varieties of radicals who hate America.
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If you can actually get someone to sit on the edge of their seat and feel nervous if there's a knock at the door, then you've done something pretty terrific as a writer.
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I wouldn't miss the opening of a door.
