Nissim Ezekiel Quotes
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Of course war is horrible, but at present it's still the only guarantee of peace.
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Death stung himself to death when he stung Christ.
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The world is too violent right now.
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Becoming a mother has helped me to realize who I am aside from my career.
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...you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.
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If you think you're something long enough, eventually, you just turn into it.
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If I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention is just another name for United States imperialism.
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I've had my own personal stalker. I would get nude drawings of my body with a knife and a message saying 'I'm watching you' and 'I'm going to get you.'
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A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.
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To the youngsters of today, I say believe in the future, the world is getting better; there still is plenty of opportunity. Why, would you believe it, when I was a kid I thought it was already too late for me to make good at anything.
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To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.
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You make a great, very great mistake, if you think that psychology, being the science of the mind's laws, is something from which you can deduce definite programmes and schemes and methods of instruction for immediate schoolroom use.
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... A rule of thinking which would absolutely prevent me from acknowledging certain kinds of truth if those ... truths were really there, would be an irrational rule.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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Being strong does not mean that you never fall down, but that whenever you fall, you get up again.
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No one pushed harder than Congressman Barney Frank to force banks and other financial institutions to reduce their mortgage lending standards, in order to meet government-set goals for more home ownership. Those lower mortgage lending standards are at the heart of the increased riskiness of the mortgage market and of the collapse of Wall Street securities based on those risky mortgages.
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Even though I'm really into fashion, I'm into fashion as a means of creative expression. I dress myself according to my personal creative expression... I try to keep it comfortable. I try to keep it simple.
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Nothing keeps people together like the exalted conviction that they alone are to be spared that eternal anguish of hell fire to which everyone else will be condemned.
