Betsy Lerner Quotes
The writer labors in isolation, yet all that intensive, lonely work is in the service of communicating, is an attempt to reach another person.
Betsy Lerner
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.
Eddie Van Halen
Van Halen
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I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually.
Natasha Richardson
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When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.
R. Lee Ermey
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When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.
Taylor Dayne
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I am not mean at all; I am not tough at all.
Carine Roitfeld
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To them belong, not only the truly great statesmen, but all other great reformers as well. Beside Frederick the Great stands Martin Luther as well as Richard Wagner.
Adolf Hitler
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We cannot too soon convince ourselves how easily we may be dispensed with in the world. What important personages we imagine ourselves to be! We think that we alone are the life of the circle in which we move; in our absence, we fancy that life, existence, breath will come to a general pause, and, alas, the gap which we leave is scarcely perceptible, so quickly is it filled again; nay, it is often the place, if not of something better, at least for something more agreeable.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible justification could be made that the activity was seeking to resolve a problem.
Carroll Quigley
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My fellow citizens, the American Presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery.
Sarah Palin
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Remember you don't do anything in isolation.
Abdullah II of Jordan
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If you're listening to music, then the music is your friend; or if you're with a person, then that person can be your friend because you're communicating.
Natalie Portman
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What were once felt to be defects-isolation, institutional simplicity, primitiveness of manners, multiplicity of religions, weaknesses in the authority of the state-could now be seen as virtues, not only by Americans themselves but by enlightened spokesmen of reform, renewal and hope wherever they may be-in London coffeehouses, in Parisian salons, in the courts of German princes.
Bernard Bailyn
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The writer labors in isolation, yet all that intensive, lonely work is in the service of communicating, is an attempt to reach another person.
Betsy Lerner
