Susan Barker Quotes
Truth is often a multiplicity of perspectives, and sometimes the more viewpoints and versions of events there are, the closer the reader gets to an overarching truth.
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I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.
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The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.
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There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
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If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
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Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.
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I will run against anybody.
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I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.
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The goal can never be reached unless a man makes his mind strong, and firmly resolves that he must realise God in this very birth, nay, this very moment.
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But people like to say, Oh, it's in the blood. But art comes from nowhere. It comes from a vague, scary place. It's scary because you don't know when it's coming or if it will ever come again. It's this Other.
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The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real. When it adheres to the unreal and intensifies what is unreal, while its first effect may be extraordinary, that effect is the maximum effect that it will ever have.
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If I don't document something, it's usually either for a good reason, or a bad reason. In this case it's a good reason.
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The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it.
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To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
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Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.
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In 1984, I returned to Newnham College at Cambridge University to teach after completing my Ph.D. there a couple of years earlier. Almost all of my colleagues in the university's classics department were men, and my office at the all-women's college was in the dorm.
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I'm shocked to be saying this, but as a child, I never went to a circus. It cost too much.
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I like exotic guys who have a lot of sexual energy. I drive army tanks and I snowboard, so he has to keep up.
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After 1945, shamefully, we Brits seemed dedicated to punishing the heroic Poles at every turn for their wartime loyalty.
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Remember that small steps can create giant leaps over time, so never think of any financial or spending matter as a small one.
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In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school.
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The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.
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Beauty is a fading flower, Truth is but a wizard's tower, Where a solemn death-bell tolls, And a forest round it rolls.
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Truth is often a multiplicity of perspectives, and sometimes the more viewpoints and versions of events there are, the closer the reader gets to an overarching truth.
