Hannah Whitall Smith Quotes
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.
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Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.
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I didn't feel attractive in high school.
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I like Liz Phair, but there were these stupid women reviewers who said she's surpassing the Stones. Dream on.
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But they lived those extraordinary lives that can never be lived again. And in the living of them, they gave me a history that is more profound, more beautiful, more powerful, more passionate, and ultimately more useful, than the best damn history book I ever read.
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The creative act requires both will and intelligence. Breaking things is easy. You only need a hammer.
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Life is a compromise between fate and free will.
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Sometimes I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unlovable in it, for all of it is part of me.
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'Pasadena' erred on the side being too dark. That was probably the one thing about it, in retrospect, why it didn't get picked up.
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I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.
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My novella, 'The Lucky One,' is inspired in part by my dad and also by a Holocaust survivor I interviewed for the Steven Spielberg Survivors of the Shoah Foundation.
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I've worked on enough campaigns to know that the most aggrieved candidate rarely emerges victorious.
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I would like to look back on my body of work and be proud of each record in its own right, but as a whole, I want to continue to grow and move forward.
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I love driving. Listen to some music.
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I'm also very pleased that we were able to include a full orchestrated score for Dragon's Lair 3D. The 40 different music pieces blend with the action to make you feel more a part of the whole adventure.
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Within three months I had gone from being this black sheep of the town to suddenly becoming a pop star.
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Sometimes it's liberating to confront horrible things in lyrics as a way to master the shadow-self that exists in everyone.
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I'm probably the most negative person around.
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I have no patience for anybody that doubts me, none at all.
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I fully agree with innovation and letting the best product win.
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Love is the only thing that pays for birth, Or makes death welcome. Oh, dear God above This beautiful but sad, perplexing earth, Pity the hearts that know--or know not--Love!
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God loves us, and the will of love is always blessing for its loved ones.
