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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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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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'm definitely a hair down girl. I'm a fan of the natural, earthy look.
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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've never set out to write a funny movie or be a funny comedian as a woman. I am a woman. I don't really have a choice in the matter. My goal is just to be funny.
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Self must be denied as to time and attention for prayer. All-prayer cannot be wielded without the expenditure of time. "A minute with God" seldom lays hold of Him. Sustained prayer is necessary. Such time may only be found by snatching it from personal pursuits, however legitimate they may be.
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Costco is a passion. Costco is like a massage.
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This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I looked on, unmoved, at battles which decided the future of nations. Tearless, I had given orders which brought death to thousands. Yet here I was stirred, profoundly stirred, stirred to tears. And by what? By the grief of one dog. Napoleon Bonaparte, on finding a dog beside the body of his dead master, licking his face and howling, on a moonlit field after a battle. Napoleon was haunted by this scene until his own death.
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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...
