Nancy Milford Quotes
To be a biographer is a somewhat peculiar endeavor. It seems to me it requires not only the tact, patience, and thoroughness of a scholar but the stamina of a horse.
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My dad was a janitor for U.S. Radium Corporation, and he stayed there for 37 years. So he didn't read.
Walter Dean Myers
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Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.
Malcolm Wallop
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I give myself this advice: Do not fear truth, let it be ever so contrary to inclination and feeling. Never give up the search after it; and let me take courage, and try from the bottom of my heart to do that which I believe truth dictates, if it lead me to be a Quaker or not.
Elizabeth Fry
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The issue is not whether or not you have that power, the issue is whether or not you use it.
Marianne Williamson
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I'm not the guy whose gonna shoot 10,000 free-throws until I'm Michael Jordan - and it did happen kind of accidentally that I said, "Okay, yeah, I'll try singing."
D.A. Wallach
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Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
Henry Ward Beecher
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The real danger in life is not death, but living an evil life.
Socrates
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
William James
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A woman's thought runs before her actions.
William Shakespeare
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Joseph is the wearisomest and self-righteous Pharisee who ever ransacked the Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses on his neighbor.
Emily Bronte
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I don't think I'm that much different from any other working actor that's trying to make a living.
Steve Buscemi
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Your path lies across the stars.
Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry
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What is required to face trauma is the ability to mourn, fully and deeply, all that has been taken from us. Only through mourning everything we have lost can we discover that we have in fact survived; that our spirits are indestructible.
Aurora Levins Morales
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Whites have traded their culture for power.
Eileen O'Brien
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Endeavor to work as hard as possible to attain a new aim with each day that comes by. Don't go to bed until you have achieved something productive.
Aliko Dangote
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Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. One should earn one's living by work of which one is sure one is capable. Only when we do not have to be accountable to anybody can we find joy in scientific endeavor.
Albert Einstein
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The man who acts humble in order to win praise is guilty of the lowest form of pride.
Nachman of Breslov
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Success hides problems...you don't need to address problems.
Edwin Catmull