Barbara Myerhoff Quotes
The best lives and stories are made up of minute particulars that somehow are also universal and of use to others as well as oneself.
Quotes to Explore
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I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!
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An enlarged global public society, with its many dissenting and corrective voices, can quickly call the bluff of lavishly credentialled and smug intellectual elites.
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I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.
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It seems to me an indictment of the Republican Party that if you talk about issues of poverty and upward mobility, people assume you're a Democrat.
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Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
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I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.
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McGregor is a businessman through and through. He's obviously a wrestling fan.
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There is properly no history; only biography.
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Some people will always be disappointed.
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If I fall, I fall. I'll rise up like anybody else.
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I want to go Africa. I want to go to China. There are some places I want to go not to work, but to really explore and to see for my own education.
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One hundred thousand dollars was the bridge that enabled me to go on TV, not miss a beat or miss an opportunity, and raise then my own money to carry me forth. And that's how I got to be the first Democratic woman in the United States Senate's history.
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Stress is never a given. There are people who get divorced amicably. There are people who pack up and move with no emotional toll. There is no stressor 'out there' in the world. We experience stress - or we don't - depending on what we believe.
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I like to call someone a raving c**t every now and then, when it’s appropriate, for effect (...) ‘You cocksucker.’ I love that kind of language.
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I think there's a lot to learn from Rockefeller on how to pass legislation.
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This acquisition highlights Goldman Sachs' strategy of expanding our electronic market-making capabilities.
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The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.
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The ages live in history through their anachronisms.
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There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored. The reader of today looks for this motion, and rightly so, but what he has forgotten is the cost of it. His sense of evil is diluted or lacking altogether, and so he has forgotten the price of restoration. When he reads a novel, he wants either his sense tormented or his spirits raised. He wants to be transported, instantly, either to mock damnation or a mock innocence.
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There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.
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The best lives and stories are made up of minute particulars that somehow are also universal and of use to others as well as oneself.
