Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quotes
The coarsest father gains a new impulse to labor from the moment of his baby's birth; he scarcely sees it when awake, and yet it is with him all the time. Every stroke he strikes is for his child. New social aims, new moral motives, come vaguely up to him.
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
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I will get my education - if it is in home, school, or anyplace.
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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
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If you think of India in the 1980s, there weren't many writers in English around. The ones that were there, Amitav Ghosh or Vikram Seth, were living abroad or publishing from abroad.
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Markets will rise and fall, but this is the United States of America. No matter what some agency may say, we've always been and always will be a AAA country.
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I can't stand Paris. I hate the place. Full of people talking French, which is a thing I bar. It always seems to me so affected.
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There's a game out there, and the stakes are high. And the guy who runs it figures the averages all day long and all night long. Once in a while he lets you steal a pot. But if you stay in the game long enough, you've got to lose. And once you've lost there's no way back, no way at all.
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Religion is innately irrational.
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There've been a few mother-daughter movies that are somewhat realistic. But the mother-son movies are more comical than realistic: 'Throw Momma from the Train,' 'Stop! or My Mom Will Shoot.' You don't sit in the dark and go, 'Oh my God, that's my mother.'
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So, I guess the answer to your question is very few people can bring off a novel of the future because it's just so damn hard to make it look like the future.
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Knowing there is a capable back-up willing to give it a try always makes you feel better.
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The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself.
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I'm obsessed with golf, so I love going to play golf.
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I read the three 'Hunger Games' books in a week and because I liked them so much I wrote 'Just a Game.'
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Whatever fame came did so not because I sought it.
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I do have an older brother! But you know, he and I have always gotten along. We've always had different aspirations.
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If you go to the FDA with a drug that's only meant to treat 50 people, and it's a 95 percent cure rate, you'll get your drug approved.
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I am an instrument of purposes that I don't fully understand.
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My personal challenge is always balance. My life has a lot of compartments to it, and I care about each of them deeply. So I wake up each day thinking, 'How am I going to balance today?'
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I don't know the time frame exactly, but it's clear they're all going to want to start spending money again.
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I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black.
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I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.
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Don't ever fret over married children; they will take care of themselves.
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The coarsest father gains a new impulse to labor from the moment of his baby's birth; he scarcely sees it when awake, and yet it is with him all the time. Every stroke he strikes is for his child. New social aims, new moral motives, come vaguely up to him.
