Beth Kephart Quotes
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In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
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I got a tattoo saying 'Made in England' above my foot to represent that, that I felt like a doll for so long.
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Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
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Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
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I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.
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When you have a voice, and you have an opportunity at the world level to be able to speak, it has to be right.
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My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.
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Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
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Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
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I get into all sorts of trouble with my publicists and with newspapers because I won't do photographs.
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I'm definitely not getting married. In this business, you're either getting married or they want you to be pregnant. I'm not getting married until I'm forty. If ever.
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Seeing a full display of humanity involved in space is a game-changer for everyone. We've all looked at the stars; we've all imagined what was going on. Not everyone wants to go, but everyone wants to know what it's like.
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Color always vexed me because I would fight with the media I was using. I love coloring in Photoshop, and it's freed me to pursue ideas and techniques I wouldn't have otherwise attempted. Since I get to take an assignment from concept to final execution, I have more freedom in my idea-making processes.
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There is a figure that is adored, but I'd question very strongly that it's me.
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I stickhandle a lot at practice. I watch a lot of hockey, so I try to either pick up something from other players or watch some video and see what kind of move would work in the same situation.
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You've got to have an ego as big as Mars to want to think that you, of all people, are better than anyone else to be president of the United States. People that vain, they want their place in history, and they want to be able to control how much they'll be worshipped by future generations.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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And join with thee, calm Peace and Quiet,Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet.
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Everyone reads the same words in a book but has a very clear picture of their own.
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The thought of me not having to clock in for a job anymore is something that I can't really put into words, aside from 'amazing' and 'awesome.'
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Words are the weights which hold our history in place.
