Edward Hallowell Quotes
That’s the problem with being an adult: people have already made up their minds about us; we’ve even made up our minds about ourselves.
Quotes to Explore
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At least for me, any time I've been in hotbeds of creativity, I got excited about something that wasn't coming from me.
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Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.
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If there were Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, it makes it certain there would be a reprisal attack against the United States at some point.
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Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
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Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.
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The number of people who will not go to a show they do not want to see is unlimited.
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I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.
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To make an album like 'Love Letter,' everything's got to be about love. Everything has to have a great feeling when you listen to it.
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But it's not just a game of finding literary references.
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I have both sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation, which are both debilitating conditions.
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The problem with listening to music today is that there's so much of it everywhere. We've got used to hearing music without actually listening to it.
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Our circumstances are the means God uses to exhibit just how wonderfully perfect and extraordinarily pure His Son is.
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Americans are the nicest, most generous, and sentimental people on earth. Yet Americans have killed more unborn children than any nation in history.
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Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates.
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Tell him to go to hell.
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You don't have to go to Harvard to figure out that the Big East is the best league in the country. You don't have to be a genius. A dummy like me can figure that out. When I look at my coach of the year candidates, Jamie Dixon is in my top five. Jamie has done a fantastic job. He has lost some heartbreakers on the road, but that's because winning on the road in the Big East is so difficult. They've been able to win at home. And that's the key when you play in a tough league. You better win your home games.
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It was the same thing in the army, no respect. They gave me a uniform that glowed in the dark.
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Reading was not an escape for her, any more than it is for me. It was an aspect of direct experience. She distinguished, of course, between the fictional world and the real one, in which she had to prepare dinners and so on. Still, for us, the fictional world was an extension of the real, and in no way a substitute for it, or refuge from it. Any more than sleeping is a substitute for waking." (Jincy Willett)
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The best part of writing is thinking about the story. And then everything else takes a lot of discipline.
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Standardized testing is at cross purposes with many of the most important purposes of public education. It doesn't measure big-picture learning, critical thinking, perseverance, problem solving, creativity or curiosity, yet those are the qualities great teaching brings out in a student.
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Whether we immoralists do any harm to virtue?-Just as little as anarchists do to princes. It is only because they have been shot at that they once again sit securely on their thrones. Moral: we must shoot at morals.
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So we strive for perfection in the areas in which we can control, and that isn't necessarily what provides contentment and joy for ourselves and, more importantly, for our children.
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I'm not leaving because we're in a bad situation. I'm leaving even sadder. It's not easy to leave the most prestigious club in the world.
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That’s the problem with being an adult: people have already made up their minds about us; we’ve even made up our minds about ourselves.
