Hannah Whitall Smith Quotes
Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks of thyself as being old, thee may perhaps bring on some of the infirmities of age. At least I would not risk it if I were thee.
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Everybody's had their differences with President Trump. He's a polarizing president, but I think a majority of the people like what he's doing.
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Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.
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My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with copperheads.
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Pride the first peer and president of hell.
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People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.
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Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.
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I was the deputy Chairman of the Democratic Union of the Pacific, and we started at 8 I think and I was called to the telephone and to be told there's a coup, the government has been overthrown - it was round about 9, 10 when the Parliament sat they had done then.
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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
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The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.
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There must be a special place in hell reserved for you.I've been to hell. It's a better place than this.
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All life is nucleic acid; the rest is commentary
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It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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Wave after waveWill flow with the tideAnd bury the world as it doesTide after tideWill flow and recedeLeaving life to go onAs it was... - Natural Science (1980)
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If I had done a Disney movie nobody would care. They would not care. You may say oh, I grew up and I loved that movie, that was really super, but you wouldn’t care. People really will stop and talk to me about deeper issues, which I am excited to participate in.
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A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.
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I like to write on tour busses and airplanes. Something about moving.
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When you are young, you are a little naive.
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One of the most surreal moments in this election was after the third debate, when I heard a talking head say, Al Gore won on substance, on the issues. But you have to give the victory to Bush because he seems presidential.
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Perhaps the promise of phallus is always dissatisfying in some way.
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Nothing is certain in life but death and taxes. And in Donald Trump's case, lies.
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It hurt me a great deal. It put a lot of pressure on me because I was at a young age and the writers around here and throughout the league starting comparing me to Cobb. It put a lot of pressure on me.
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I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
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Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks of thyself as being old, thee may perhaps bring on some of the infirmities of age. At least I would not risk it if I were thee.
