Edmond Jabes Quotes
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As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.
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There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.
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An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
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I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.
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As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.
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I like to think of myself as very loyal, and I love everyone I surround myself with, whether they're friends or girlfriends or whatever.
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I grew up loving musicals. My mom had records of original cast recordings, and one of them was 'She Loves Me.' I wore that thing out singing along to Barbara Cook when I was eight years old.
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When we played with the Rollins Band, we'd keep songs going until we felt like ending it.
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After all the sacrifice in Afghanistan and Iraq, why do we find ourselves in a more dangerous world?
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As a doctor, I will take it and make it my mission to heal the nation, reverse the course of Obamacare, and repeal every last bit of it.
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Why have your eyes gone into their own room?
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For some reason, juggling things makes everything work better. That's just how we operate. It just makes the other project more of something to look forward to. I think the more you keep things going, the more it helps the other project.
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Companies are not ingenious, it's the people in them that are.
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A divorcee is a women who got married so she didn't have to work, but now works so she doesn't have to get married.
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Whether you are right in the middle of a glamorous event or watching it from the sidelines, the red carpet Oscar events set the stage to showcase the latest designs and styles for those watching around the world.
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Obama's foreign policy is strangely self-centered, focused on himself and the United States rather than on the conduct and needs of the nations the United States allies with, engages with, or must confront.
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The young girls of Paris put everything they make on their backs.
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I'm not a real estate developer. I'm a golfer. I'm a sportsman.
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In the mountains, travelers were reduced to the speed of men on foot. Here, the ancient English sense of journey, 'a day's travel' (French journee), meant the same as the Old Persian word farsang, 'the distance a man could travel on foot in a day,' and the territory was in effect ungovernable.
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The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience, the next for health of mind, and then of body.
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I do have people looking up to me, which is still kind of weird to me. 'I'm like, 'Why? What have I done?'
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We do not truly speak except at a distance. There is no word not severed.
