Charles Webster Hawthorne Quotes
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism.
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If Truman hadn't published 'Answered Prayers' in parts, he'd have had the drive to finish it. The peacocks took it away from him.
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Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.
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Most important of all, there is no right or wrong way to write - there's only what works for you. I was taught to write every day, but I know a writer (a bestseller at that!) who only writes on weekends.
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No foreign terrorist organization has successfully planned and executed an attack on our homeland.
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The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.
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When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.
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If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil. That is to say, it will not be the equality of social conditions but rather their inequality which may give rise thereto.
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In the days before machinery men and women who wanted to amuse themselves were compelled, in their humble way, to be artists. Now they sit still and permit professionals to entertain them by the aid of machinery. It is difficult to believe that general artistic culture can flourish in this atmosphere of passivity.
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The mystical pregnancy is one of the tropes that I loathe the most because while other tropes represent women in stereotypical ways, this one hits us on a biological level.
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'Notes don't make music until you learn to insert silence between them.'
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It's not music you would use to get a girl into bed. If anything, you're going to frighten her off.
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At the end of the day I have to please myself. And I've made a record to please myself.
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There are a lot of stereotypes to be broken which I think a lot of us are doing. What I do is, as soon as people try to pin me down to one kind of part, I'll play a very different kind of role, so it explodes that stereotype.
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A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.
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For there is no virtue, the honour and credit for which procures a man more odium from the elite than that of justice; and this, because more than any other, it acquires a man power and authority among the common people. For they only honour the valiant and admire the wise, while in addition they also love just men, and put entire trust and confidence in them.
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The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
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These teachings have been sent to explain the truth as Jesus intended it to be known in the world - not to give a new Christianity, but to give the real Christ-teaching: how to become like Christ, how to resurrect the Eternal Christ within one's Self...
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A sketch has charm because of its truth - not because it is unfinished.
