Arlene Francis Quotes
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I like to combine visits to more than one place when I go on my international tours in order to get more done. I'm from Ahmedabad where we have a saying, 'Single-fare, double journey.'
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My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there, I know, there will be people who will listen.
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It is discouraging. But at the time same, I know it could have been worse.
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Criticism is a destroyer of self-worth and esteem.
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Overcome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of the pain entrusted to you. Like the mother of the world who carries the pain of the world in her heart, you are sharing in a certain measure of that cosmic pain, and are called upon to meet it in joy instead of self pity.
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Show is not substance; realities govern wise men.
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It is profitable wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and pains are spared in not flattering ourselves against probabilities.
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Plato used to say to Xenocrates the philosopher, who was rough and morose, "Good Xenocrates, sacrifice to the Graces.
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The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.
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When the German people trusting to the promises made by President Wilson in his Fourteen Points, laid down their arms in November 1918, a fateful struggle thereby came to an end for which perhaps individual statesmen, but certainly not the peoples themselves could be held responsible.
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The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . is one of those fantasies that surround authorship.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Peace. That's what I want all around the world, everywhere I go I always do the peace sign with my fingers.
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You put yourself on the line as a performer, and when people reject you, it's a personal rejection.
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Humankind can tolerate only so much rejection.
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You don't really know what to believe until the Government denies it.
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Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.
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If there's anything intolerance can't tolerate, it's ridicule!
