Arlene Blum Quotes
You never conquer a mountain. You just stand on the top a few moments. Then the wind blows your footprints away.
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If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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I don't think anything's ever simple. Everyone's just trying to understand each other, and whether that's because you're in a relationship or because you're meeting their friends or because their meeting your brother or whatever it is, nothing like that is ever smooth running.
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
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I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.
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What I do onstage, there's maybe .0001 percent of the population that acts like that. I talk like that because it makes me laugh, and because I know a couple of people that talk like that. They're really that Southern. And they do funny things. I love 'em; they're awesome. They're good people.
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I'm the weird person who completely loved and devoured 'Middlemarch' but who has not finished far shorter and more readable books due to distraction or the fact that by some miracle I am sleeping through the night.
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We're all colored, or you wouldn't be able to see anyone.
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Only when I know who I am will I know what is possible.
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Our people are going to war to perpetuate slavery, but the war will be its death knell.
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The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.
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Adeo facilius est multa facere quam diu.
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He drew a circle that shut me out - Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But Love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle that took him in.
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If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president. It's kind of a pipe dream, it's a personal fantasy of mine, but I don't think it's going to happen. And it is a good way of making the point that women are voting so stupidly, at least single women.
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I'm one of five sisters. I'm the younger of twins, and we're the youngest of five girls, and we've always been very close. We were pretty much a gang. I take after my mother a lot in terms of personality and character. She was very positive; always looked on the bright side of things. She had a tough time of it with my dad but did her best.
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And if you are strong enough, then you can grow as a conductor more and more.
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There'd be days in high school where I thought I played well, my team got the win, and I'd go to the gym still in my uniform, and my dad would say, 'C'mon, let's go. We have more work to do.'
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I would love to work with Marion Cotillard... and my sister! I've never worked with Dakota before in a movie. It'd be so cool to be on screen interacting with each other one day. It will happen, I'm just not sure when.
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What I normally do with recording, performing, and touring is my name. It's all on my shoulders. If it's a great show, I'm great. If it's not a great show, I'm not great.
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The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity.
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I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.
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The reason why rivers and seas are able to be lords over a hundred mountain streams, is that they know how to keep below them. That is why they are able to reign over all the mountain streams.
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Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
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You never conquer a mountain. You just stand on the top a few moments. Then the wind blows your footprints away.
