Beatrice Sparks Quotes
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While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.
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The only routine with me is no routine at all.
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There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
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I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
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Tile is going to the landfill by the metric ton. All we have to do it gather it up, glue it down to the floor and grout it. Then you have a tile floor, and not just any tile floor: it's a mosaic of your own choosing.
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I have very eclectic taste in music, but when it comes to going to concerts, I like going to rock concerts.
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Now, the entire world community recognizes Georgia. We are members of the United Nations and the Council of Europe. Everything is being prepared so that we will soon enter the European Union.
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The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a freezing of caste, a damming of curiosity - a hundred other factors. It has been going on, as I have said, for centuries, and it is too majestic and massive a movement to stop.
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When I am dead, no pageant train Shall waste their sorrows at my bier, Nor worthless pomp of homage vain Stain it with hypocritic tear.
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Right now, my daughter's just rolling her eyes at everything I do; I'm just an embarrassment.
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I'm at that great level where fans will stop and say 'hi,' which I love, but the paparazzi don't care, which is incredible.
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Luck and being honest and sincere about work has worked for me and helped me reach where I am.
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Some people strive for perfection, but I often find perfection boring.
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My musical education was grounded in blues and Chicago blues - John Lee Hooker and Otis Redding.
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This country owes them all a debt of gratitude. The down payment on that debt is making sure that we live up to Lincoln's charge: to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan.
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I would like people to be moved to act collectively, to militate.
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Even when you have a big budget, you can't just shoot everything.
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One of the first things I learned in the Marine Corps is that any military mission has to be defined as precisely as you can possibly define it, and then you size the force and equipment force to accomplish that mission without fail.
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I guess this like everything else bad in life, will pass.
