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 Letters are like deposits in a secret bank that can be withdrawn when they are needed.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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Most of us carry at least a weak sense of a correlation between poetry and human possibility that cannot be realized by poems. The poet, by his very claim to be a maker of poems, is therefore both an embarrassment and accusation.
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Being a poet is not a job or a profession but a way of life.
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You have to realize that everyone in a band is all more or less together, and everyone has their own niche, and some people lead in some ways, and some people lead in others.
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The problem England have got is that if they don't win the group they will play the French and if they play them, they will be beaten.
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A set of Bollywood actresses are coming through Dallas soon in a live tour; I'd pay a lot to see them, but alas, I'm fully booked elsewhere.
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The key to success is dedication to life-long learning.
