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'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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Maybe you are homophobic a little bit, but then you see me, and you've always loved me, and you love the way I play, and your kids love me. And then you're like, 'Oh, that's OK. It's fine.' Once it gets a little bit more personal, it helps break down those barriers.
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The Stepover definitely made me famous. The thing with Allen Iverson is, he made me.
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Near-term deficits are temporary and manageable if - and only if - we keep spending in check, the tax burden low and the economy growing.
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May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
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Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically--to those who hardly think about us in return.
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Ein Mittler ist derjenige, der Göttliches in sich wahrnimmt, und sich selbst vernichtend Preis giebt, um dieses Göttliche zu verkündigen, mitzutheilen, und darzustellen allen Menschen in Sitten und Thaten, in Worten und Werken.
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«A historical figure gives up leaving an unpayable debt.»
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God loves us, and the will of love is always blessing for its loved ones.
