Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quotes
What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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When you have young children, it is hard to see live performances. Unless I am in it. I do manage to see my husband Rupert Goold's work, of course.
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I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
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I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.
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Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
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I really enjoyed being able to be one of the people who weighed in on the events. As hard as it is to do that every day, because it is exhausting, it really is fun to do that, especially when you feel like you really did something well, and it really hit.
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The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.
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I see potential in everything. It's about opening your mind to what you can do to the garment: because they're cheap, you can cut them or stitch them, and if you stuff it up, it's fine - it's only two dollars.
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If you say John Smith is the greatest wrestler in Oklahoma history, now that's big.
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I have matured a lot.
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We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.
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I'm not a wushu champion. I was an athlete when I was a kid. I was a swimmer and a runner, but all this action stuff is such a challenge. It really, really is.
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There's more to life than football, right?
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Cuanto he perdido lo hallo a cada paso y me recuerda que lo he perdido.
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The creation continues incessantly through the media of man.
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Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.
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The real biographies of poets are like those of birds, almost identical - their data are in the way they sound. A poet's biography lies in his twists of language, in his meters, rhymes, and metaphors.
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There is unspeakable comfort in knowing that God is constantly taking knowledge of me in love and watching over me for my good.
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A single thought can revolutionize your life as it did mine. A single thought can make you rich or it can land you in prison for the rest of your life.
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I joined forces with the American Cancer Society in 2010 as a spokesperson for the N.F.L.'s 'A Crucial Catch' campaign, which benefits the American Cancer Society. This was important to me because I lost my mother to breast cancer, and I have always felt a strong commitment to doing all I can to fight this disease.
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I looked at but was not allowed to touch Ai Weiwei's 'Sunflower Seeds' at the Tate. The film of making them was really moving.
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What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?
