Beatrice Sparks Quotes
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A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
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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've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
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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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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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I never had those dreams of making the Olympics. Never.
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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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Going around not fully believing that you're going to die is really problematic because it affects how you think about the future of the planet, about the future of your own life, about the decisions you're making.
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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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I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder.
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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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I'm surprised that we've gotten to a point where we don't put our country first and put our party first.
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I was never OJ's closest pal, and the media would say that over and over, but I wasn't his enemy either.
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[Martin Luther ] King didn't pick his leadership position. Most movements are not started by single people.
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My favorite word is clarity...clarity...clarity. And the critical clarity is what is the transformation that is going to take place in the customer's life or work when they buy and use your product? And how profound is that? How important is that? You know the old saying, "If you could come up with a cure for cancer you'd be a billionaire by the end of the week" because of that profound result.
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Sometimes I think we live in a world where, even when things are good, people always feel unsatisfied with wherever they are, so I think first I just want to enjoy being happy where I am now and not let my ambition take away from being in the moment.
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I guess this like everything else bad in life, will pass.
