Edith Hahn Beer Quotes
We were taught that the French were our archenemies, that the Italians were traitors, that Austria had lost the First World War only because of a “stab in the back”—but I must tell you, we were never sure who had done the stabbing.
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I feel like we can learn from each other by us, being the young generation, giving knowledge to the older guys.
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People say I look younger than the music I'm doing just because the songs are older. Hopefully I can keep my youthful look!
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A deadly sins addendum is long overdue. Life has changed since Pope Gregory the Great scribbled his initial list in the sixth century.
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But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.
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I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because you're a Democrat. Sometimes that's good, obviously, and sometimes that's obviously bad. But in the news business, there's no such thing as Republican or Democratic news. News is news.
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Sometimes you're fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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there is no noise louder than a silent phone.
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... letters freeze time for us, eternalizing shared experiences so we can go back and draw strength from them. Letters are like deposits in a secret bank that can be withdrawn when they are needed. And as we look back in love, we appreciate anew the thought and time that was taken to express those feelings.
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Think, walk, talk and act like a nonsmoker and you will soon be one
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I always think if you are asking somebody for something it is a good idea to give them something first.
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It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.
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I wanted to tell him that I will never be sorry for loving him. That in a way I still do - that maybe I always will. I'll never regret one single thing we did together because what we had was very special. Maybe if we were ten years older it would have worked out differently. Maybe. I think it's just that I'm not ready for forever.
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I do not have a family, per se. When I was younger, I grew up in foster care with my brother and sister. It was really a struggle, and knowing that there were people out there with tight-knit families really made my childhood an unfortunate one.
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When I was 16, the pot weeded out the men from the boys, there were the heads and the straights. Now it's almost like money can weed it out, you know?
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Affaires meant 'business.' How like the French to kill two birds with one stone.
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I think it's nice for women to try to be sexy for their man.
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We were taught that the French were our archenemies, that the Italians were traitors, that Austria had lost the First World War only because of a “stab in the back”—but I must tell you, we were never sure who had done the stabbing.
