Beatrice Miller Quotes
I had an opinion but I never spoke my mind. And I wouldn’t argue even when I knew I was right.
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This opinion, however, is held by most, that the devil was an angel, and that, having become an apostate, he induced as many of the angels as possible to fall away with himself, and these up to the present time are called his angels.
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If you're having a down time at school and people are bullying you, they don't know you. They don't have the right to have an opinion on you.
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I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
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Before the Civil War, the Negro was certainly as efficient a workman as the raw immigrant from Ireland or Germany. But, whereas the Irishmen found economic opportunity wide and daily growing wider, the Negro found public opinion determined to 'keep him in his place.'
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I can't do it every day. They're not going to give me much to hit right now. They're pitching me real well. If I get there, fine.
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Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.
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Trust me, I would love to have a wife and kids. I would very much enjoy that. But I also know that you have to be in the right place to do that.
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I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.
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What I love about New York is just the electricity I feel right away.
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I don't want to be influenced by outside opinion.
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A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.
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I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.
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I've got a right to knock down anybody holding a bat.
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You are physically up for scrutiny by everyone and you hear everyone's opinion.
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A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.
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There are movies that I love tonally, that I would love to emulate. Anything from Wes Anderson or the Coen brothers is right in my wheelhouse, as something that I would aspire to. I love that kind of indie, fun, colorful, funny, sweet, heartfelt but dark film.
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On the whole, I have quite a low opinion of men.
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Golf is my boyfriend right now.
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It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
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In the African-American community, we struggle with a lot of health problems that have a lot to do with our diet.
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Sited a third of the way up Dartmouth Park Hill, it had obviously been designed by a keen admirer of Albert Speer, particularly his later work on the monumental fortifications of the Atlantic Wall.
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I do think that this planet is a totally unjust planet. I mean throughout history - history paints a beautiful picture when it's written by the victorious, but it's a planet that belongs to the strong and the more able, and usually they are tyrants. So basically, I don't see justice happening to the crushed and the weak.
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By incentivizing Wall Street players to sniff out inefficient or corrupt companies and bet against them, short-selling acts as a sort of policing system; legal short-sellers have been instrumental in helping expose firms like Enron and WorldCom.
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I had an opinion but I never spoke my mind. And I wouldn’t argue even when I knew I was right.
