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...
Quotes to Explore
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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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Every trend in my high school was terrible! I used to wear my hair in a tight bun and let two long pieces hang in the front. I'd also wear really dark eyeliner and bright pink eyeshadow. For some reason, my friends and I thought it was really fashionable to wear a short tie with our uniforms.
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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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There's a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed falls, it makes a tree which struggles to reach the sky. It grows in boarded-up lots and out of neglected rubbish heaps. It grows up out of cellar gratings. It is the only tree that grows out of cement. It grows lushly . . . survives without sun, water, and seemingly without earth. It would be considered beautiful except that there are too many of it.
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Self-perception is important because it allows you to figure out who you are. It also enables you to determine how to close the gap between your present personality and who you want to be.
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In twenty years' time I'll be eighty-three, just an old man with a stick moving like a sloth bear. While I'm alive, I am fully committed to autonomy, and I am the person who can persuade the Tibetan people to accept it.
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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...
