Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quotes
In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both sides applaud a heroic deed.

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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'
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We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.
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I never try to follow a trend or fashion.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
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God guided me to America and gave me a good job. But he also gave me a heart so I would look back.
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I think every business, really, has a unique reason for being, unique assets, unique attributes, a unique history. And that can be turned into a very attractive design story, essentially, that consumers can relate to.
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My parents were both born in Birmingham, Alabama, and come from large Catholic families with lots of Michaels, Marks, and Patricks, so they wanted to choose two names that I don't think you could find anywhere else in the family tree: Haley and Joel.
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When you feel totally alone in your thoughts and feelings, there's someone out there who is going through what you went through, even if it's the strangest, weirdest thing you could think of.
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Each year I host a leadership summit in my district, and my biggest advice to young people is get experience. Get your foot in the door.
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The young adult category is particularly interesting to me in terms of science fiction and fantasy tropes.
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I lost a girlfriend when I was in my 30s. She was 46. It all sounds so trite, but I put a Post-it on my dressing-room wall. It said, 'The past is history. The future is a mystery. This moment is a gift, which is why it's called the present.'
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Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.
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My mom raised me to be clean, so it's in my nature. I have two little girls, and I'm married, but we've got a nanny and a maid.
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Whenever you move, I think you lose your history.
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To increase the zone of peace is to build the inner core of a stable international zone.
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The way I usually put it is that as an SF writer, I'm never required to be right.
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The Bible is as much a book of religion with me as the Gita and the Koran.
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I did some good things as a rookie.
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I've been embracing gray hair since... high school, and I don't think that anything's changed since then.
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In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both sides applaud a heroic deed.