Beatrice Sparks Quotes
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In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
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America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.
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The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.
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The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.
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Robots are good at things that are structured.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
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My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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As always, I wrote songs. Some people cook or play sports. This is what I love to do. Sometimes I can't express myself that well in talk, so I write songs.
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In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.
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I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.
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I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry periodical, and as a teenager I was introduced to Denise Levertov, who was an influence.
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I was involved in legislating dozens of laws, perhaps hundreds. But my glory didn't lie in legislative work, if there is any glory in it. The Israeli law books are full of laws that aren't enforced anyway.
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You fly. You aviate. You do everything you can to get the aircraft safely on the ground.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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My acting coach makes the impossible accessible.
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She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.
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As an old creative industry full of cruelty and moral sense, British journalism once flourished on the imperative that people required the truth in order to survive. But people don't require that now. They want sensation and they want it for nothing.
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I don't mind playing spoiler.
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Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?
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Lying - remembering beauty in truth.
