Hannah Whitall Smith Quotes
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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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We are the most dangerous species of life on the planet, and every other species, even the earth itself, has cause to fear our power to exterminate. But we are also the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.
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Yeah, and by the way? How much does it suck that I'm an adult if I kill somebody, and not if I want a beer?
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As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.
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We've got ballots flying around, being counted by hand, arriving by truck and in God knows whose custody.
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God loves us, and the will of love is always blessing for its loved ones.
