Rebecca Harding Davis Quotes
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It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
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I get along very well with animals and children. I dig them, I get them.
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Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
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How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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Violence is a tool of the ignorant.
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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
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I may as well say it, I have been married three times.
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A tree grows. If you're staying the same, something is wrong. You're not alive.
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As the Cold War melts into history, our first concern should be the preservation and extension of human rights and democracy.
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To the youth who have taken up guns, I urge them to return to their parents and shun violence.
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In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.
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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
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We should craft our laws to allow images of criminal suspects to be captured in public - but also to make sure that the government does not unduly infringe on the privacy rights of innocent citizens.
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I'm so blessed to have such enlightened parents. It must have been very hard to watch their able-bodied son lock himself up in his old room for most of his 20s.
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The number of attacks on the American and allied forces is at the highest level since the insurgency began despite the increase of America combat operations and the introduction of some 40 new Iraq security forces and battalions.
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Even such is time, that takes in trustOur youth, our joys, our all we have,And pays us but with age and dust;Who in the dark and silent grave,When we have wandered all our ways,Shuts up the story of our days.But from this earth, this grave, this dust,My God shall raise me up, I trust!
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I remind myself that I don't have the ability to completely manipulate reality to be exactly what I want it to be. So now that reality is antithetical to what I want, how I can feel into it and act skillfully rather than react? How can I choose my best course of action while not pretending I don't have the pain, or running away from the pain, or blaming someone else for the circumstances of my life?
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My memories from my childhood are centered on my father's medical conditions alongside my constant desire to understand the principles of the nature around me.
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I appreciate my journey, but I don't want that for my kid. Not any of it. It has nothing to do with whether I liked my childhood. I really did. But as a parent, that isn't the childhood that I'd provide.
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People always ask, 'How do you write so many books?' And I say, I work a lot. I work six or seven days a week.
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The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.
