Clara Jeffery Quotes
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Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance.
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.
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My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.
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Children, old crones, peasants, and dogs ramble; cats and philosophers stick to their point.
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
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If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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It would be a sad story to get rid of religious belief, national identity, family, and even sexual identity. That's not freedom.
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I am a contrarian.
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Conversations about money certainly are not sexy, but they should give each of you some clarity and enable you to enter into your marriage with a better understanding of each other and what is important. Work and home responsibilities, joint or separate accounts, budgets, etc. are all subjects which should be discussed.
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I roll from my bedroom into my workroom in the morning and craft-craft-craft.
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I write for young people because I like them and because I think they are important. Children's books can be mind-stretchers and imagination-ticklers and builders of good taste in a way that adult books cannot, because young people usually come to books with more open minds. It's exciting to be able to contribute to that in a small way.
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I just want to write a great lyric and write a great song, and everything else is icing on the cake.
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Love is a kind of warfare.
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Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.
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We have every resource necessary to provide access to education for every child on the planet; we just need to commit to enabling it.
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Very long ago our ancestors had moral systems. Our current institutions are only a couple of thousand years old, which is really not old in the eyes of a biologist.
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Black women's feelings of responsibility for nurturing the children in their own extended family networks have stimulated a more generalized ethic of care where black women feel accountable to all the black community's children.
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I always wanted to get out of Tokyo and in 1977, New York seemed like the most interesting place to visit. I didn't intend to live here- I just wanted to get out and see what was happening. I just happened to stay here then.
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Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency.
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Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.
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