Binnie Kirshenbaum Quotes
Henry told me he is often the life of the party, as if he didn't already know that to be the life of the party is the most sad and pathetic of all things to be.
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Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
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Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
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Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
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Every single day, I get up and I say, 'I am going to live and not die.'
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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
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Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.
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You have a dramatic portion of your television program and you treat it dramatically, and then you have a comedic portion of your program, and you treat it differently. Why do you change who are between the two pieces? You're the same person. Just go.
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Politicians make decisions in favor of their interest groups or their supporters back in their hometowns.
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I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland.
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The challenge to Asia is to discard the dry, meatless bone of mysticism and fatalism.
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Act so that the effects of your actions are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life.
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It was an accident of circumstance that I never married.
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Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.
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In a way, he lost some of himself, some of his knack, and therefore some of the choices he might have had in life. But in losing those, he gained so much more freedom, so much more power, that he was clear winner in the bargain.
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The so-called evils are evils only in relation to a certain thing, and that which is evil in relation to a certain existing thing, either includes the non-existence of that thing or the non-existence of some of its good conditions.
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We have all heard of these things before. The love letter arriving as the teacup falls. The guitar striking up as the last breath sounds out. I don't attribute it to God or to sentiment. Perhaps it's chance. Or perhaps chance is just another way to try to convince ourselves that we are valuable.
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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
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Puberty was the most horrifying time of my life.
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My first job was cleaning sheep pens.
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Continue to make the demands of the day your immediate concern, and take occasion to test the purity of your hearts and the steadfastness of your spirits. When you then take a deep breath and rise above the cares of this world and in an hour of leisure, you will surely win the proper frame of mind to face devoutly what is above us, with reverence, seeing in all events the manifestation of a higher guidance.
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It is a deplorable fact that many Christians are so accustomed to a certain creed and dogma of their own that they will adhere to it even at the sacrifice of the great moral laws of love and mercy.
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Henry told me he is often the life of the party, as if he didn't already know that to be the life of the party is the most sad and pathetic of all things to be.
