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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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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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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I'm just ah, actually developing a tv show for HBO, and I'm directing a film this summer, and actually I'm doing some live shows out in western Canada.
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Every show I've been on, my kids pay no attention. They're just like, 'Who cares. It's just dad's job.'
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Millennials, and the generations that follow, are shaping technology. This generation has grown up with computing in the palm of their hands. They are more socially and globally connected through mobile Internet devices than any prior generation. And they don't question; they just learn.
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I just have an allergic reaction to lung cancer. Gives me tumors.
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I knew what I wanted to do in sport from the age of nine.
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There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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If Iran becomes a nuclear weapon state it is the end of non-proliferation as we know it. If Iran gets a nuclear weapon you are likely to see Saudi, Egypt and other countries follow suit and we will bequeath to the next generation a nuclear arms race in the world's most unstable region.
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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.
