Alfred A. Montapert Quotes
Don't dodge difficulties; meet them, greet them, beat them. All great men have been through the wringer.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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At Harvard, I got to meet and have dinner with Jamaica Kincaid. Just to have conversations with professors was absolutely amazing.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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I find it's really hard for anybody to meet anyone. I'm not big on dates anyways. I still have to work that out.
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I was really interested in geishas' work, and wanted to meet real geishas.
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In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.
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No matter who I meet, I won't have any pressure.
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When you start rhyming, it's hard to find things that rhyme with Yauch, Horovitz and Diamond.
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Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called everybody, and they meet at the bar.
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Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health.
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We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.
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It is difficulties that show what men are. For the future, in case of any difficulty, remember that God, like a gymnastic trainer, has pitted you against a rough antagonist. For what end? That you may be an Olympic conqueror; and this cannot be without toil.
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It is difficulties that show what men are.
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Between the difficulties, one hides the opportunity.
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I want to be independent. To meet interesting people. ... I just mean new people with clever things to say. Things I've never heard before. I want to be free. Open to whatever adventure comes along and sweeps me off my feet.
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What have you come to Earth for?' 'I'm having difficulties with a flower,' the little prince said. 'Ah!' said the snake. And they were both silent.
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Oh, I was not made for heaven. No, I don't want to go to heaven. Hell is much better. Think of all the interesting people you're going to meet down there!
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I have gained a lot of perspective from the places I have traveled too and the people I have been fortunate enough to meet.
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We have now begun a wide range of case involvement at religiously connected hospitals and universities that are already exempt from having to cover contraception, in my view a completely unnecessary accommodation this administration doled up to such entities.
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Normally, filmmakers would just write a script and cast people to act as certain characters in the story. But in my way of doing things, I have the actors in my mind already, so I'm trying to borrow something that's unique to them. The characters have a very natural connection to the actors themselves.
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I want someone to pinch me so I can feel something, anything. I'm sick of this numbness, of feeling so alone and outside of everything, but I know it's too dangerous to wake up." —Ruth Mendenberg
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Don't dodge difficulties; meet them, greet them, beat them. All great men have been through the wringer.
