Edith Hahn Beer Quotes
How can a gang of pompous little men so quickly destroy the democratic institutions of a great country?!” cried Wolfgang, pounding on the table in frustration, making the chess pieces topple.
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I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
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Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.
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What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
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I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
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But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter.
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In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds.
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The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
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It's a huge step up from the European Indoor Championships to being world outdoor gold medallist.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I wrote a song several years ago while I was in college called 'Muscadine Wine.' I really didn't know if it had potential or not, if it was good or bad or what. I played it for my roommates - who I played ball with - one night, and I knew they would tell me the truth. They loved it, and that encouraged me.
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I don't have to be making a lot of money or living in a fancy house.
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Opinions differ most when there is least scientific warrant for having any.
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I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.
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No agency is better than its account executives.
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The next time you experience a blackout, take some solace by looking at the sky. You will not recognize it.
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It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
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I don't like to have anybody tell me to be in a place at certain times. That's kind of the advantage of stand up. You're self-employed.
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We cannot be a party that nominates someone who refuses to condemn white supremacists and the Ku Klux Klan.
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I had some experience in dealing with people who have mental illness and depression, but I didn't see the signs in myself. I couldn't ask for help because I didn't know I needed help.
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I'm a minimalist kind of person: only one pair of boots, one pair of pants, and if I could, only one shirt.
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How can a gang of pompous little men so quickly destroy the democratic institutions of a great country?!” cried Wolfgang, pounding on the table in frustration, making the chess pieces topple.
