Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay Quotes
Life is large. We cannot possibly grasp the whole of it in the few years that we have to live. What is vital? What is essential? What may we profitably let go?
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
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The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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When I started out in life I wanted to teach.
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This could be done in part, because the equipment was very inexpensive. Not much money was involved in tooling so that basic changes of that type could be accomplished.
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It's just impossible to ignore the activists in your party. These are the people who stuff the envelopes, and walk the precincts, and make the telephone calls, and do all the so-called grunt work that brings about a successful campaign.
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Shakespeare pulls on us and demands the best of us. You never successfully wrestle one of his plays to the ground and say, 'See? That's It!'
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I didn't fit in at school, and I didn't fit in at home, and I didn't know why. I was often lonely.
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I realized there was racism because people thought, 'Oh, if you like roll 'n' roll, that makes you like a white kid.'
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Ninety-nine percent of Indian people loved me and they still love me.
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Generally speaking, the Smritikars never care to explain the why and the how of their dogmas.
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My dad always associated information with liberation. He was very much in that Malcolm X tradition.
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If you look at things like Google Now also. Maybe you want to just have a question answered for you before you ask it.
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In the beginning, I was doing whatever came my way. But that's how life is. I am not sitting around calling a 'daddy' to make a movie for me.
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My whole life, I've loved '80s synth and goth rock like The Sisters of Mercy and Depeche Mode.
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Videogames make you feel like you're actually doing something. Your brain processes the tiered game achievements as real-life achievements. Every time you get to the next level, hot jets of reward chemical coat your brain in a lathery foam, and it seems like you're actually accomplishing stuff.
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The only moral lesson which is suited for a child--the most important lesson for every time of life--is this: 'Never hurt anybody.
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Anybody who's away from what's normal is just kind of pushed aside as, 'Oh, he's crazy.' But in reality, this world is crazy. It's just chaos everywhere. It's really hard to be part of this world, because it's very possessed. And very egocentric.
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Life is large. We cannot possibly grasp the whole of it in the few years that we have to live. What is vital? What is essential? What may we profitably let go?
