Hannah Whitall Smith Quotes
Keep your face upturned to Christ as the flowers do to the sun. Look, and your soul shall live and grow...
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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My friends I grew up with were so supportive to me. And I'm not the only one who's done well.
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I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.
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For the entirety of my career, I have taken the fights that no one wanted because I fear no man.
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When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.
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There's the argument that you can relate to someone who's completely unrelatable. In the way that a director shows you his imagination on a film, then I get to show you my imagination in a big dumb character.
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You don't choose your public; your public chooses you.
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A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare.
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A big blockbuster like 'Kick' expands the audience for my films and makes it easier to promote them.
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The war industry people are very together; they know exactly what they want; they don't even have to talk to each other. The peace industry people are just intellectuals who are very critical of each other... Unless the peace industry is powerful, we're always going to have war. It is as simple as that.
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I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?' Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they're gonna think.
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The truth is I don't feel too bad for my age. I actually have a better shape now than I used to.
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If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much.
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When you come right down to it, I guess I really am pretty bland.
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I started as an engineer. I migrated to philosophy and international politics. And I did my studies about African – Africa democracy and democratization in Africa, taking Kenya as a model. And then, while I was doing so in 1996 in South Africa, Al Jazeera was established. So they requested me to be an analyst on African affairs.
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The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
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I didn't get why I was wearing a mask. But I understand it now - why my dad would want our face to be covered.
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What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few chilly days and a few weeks' rain; where the sun is never far away, and the flowers bloom all year long?
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It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels. That had no sister.
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I learned that you have to say that you're a filmmaker. You're not a screenwriter; you're not a director for hire. You've got to take charge. You're a filmmaker, and you're going to make a film.
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Investors have been too willing to buy stocks with strong reported earnings, even if they do not understand how the earnings are produced.
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Keep your face upturned to Christ as the flowers do to the sun. Look, and your soul shall live and grow...
