Armin Wiebe Quotes
The most dangerous silence is noise; noise keeps us from hearing what we need to hear or from speaking what we need to speak.
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I don't think what I look like is relevant.
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Obama, in pursuit of power, has been as greedy and irresponsible as any Wall Street tycoon in pursuit of money.
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For as long as I could remember, the person in E23 pasted the same Halloween decoration, a witch with a giant wart on her crone's nose, but whenever kids rang, the tenant wouldn't answer. At first, kids figured they'd just missed the guy: bad timing. But it seemed impossible that all of us missed him every year.
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I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.
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Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.
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I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid!
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.
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The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.
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My love, growing up on the Prairies, was country music.
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When I was teaching Latin in girls' schools before I became a writer, I didn't much like it if parents would come in and say, 'We'll have less of the Ovid and Virgil and more of the grammar, please.' After all, I was the one in charge. That's how I feel about doctors. You should trust them to do their job properly.
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Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
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I think I was a shy kid. I grew up without television. I had a dog, and we lived up in the White Mountains in the summer, and I had no friends up there. And I would just go play hide-and-seek with my dog and probably had some imaginary friends.
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These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.
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I do know what it's like to worry about bills, I do know what it's like to worry about even finding a child-minder, never mind paying them.
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My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.
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I like sex. I've had feedback but men will feed you back anything, won't they?
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Mom and I…we're both very flaky people.
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One of the things that I encourage for anybody who is interested in their own charity or philanthropy is to start from where you are and what has mattered to you.
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For my father there was no sharper way to understand a country than by listening to its stories.
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A feud should live a full and colorful life, and then it should die a natural death and be forgotten.
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Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.
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The most dangerous silence is noise; noise keeps us from hearing what we need to hear or from speaking what we need to speak.
