Eleanor Hallowell Abbott Quotes
One was a Cartoon Artist with a heart like chiffon and a wit as accidentally malicious as the jab of a pin in a flirt's belt.
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
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Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.
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Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
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I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.
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We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
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'The Burning Dark' needs a certain kind of soundtrack - something dark and moody, electronic, weird. One of my favourite bands is Ladytron, and I think they'd fit the bill quite well.
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From the beginning, the Continental Congress had official chaplains, prayers, and days of fasting and Thanksgiving. When sessions opened in 1774, fear was voiced that the religious diversity of the country would make it hard to choose a form of worship.
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O all ye exorcizers come and exorcize now, and ye clergymen draw nigh and clerge,For I wish to be purged of an urge.It is an irksome urge, compounded of nettles and glue,And it is turning all my friends back into acquaintances, and all my acquaintances into people who look the other way when I heave into view.
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Just Cause: Learn not to contradict your father in anything; nor by calling him Iapetus, to reproach him with the ills of age, by which you were reared in your infancy. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)
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When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best friend and I were driving to California. She laughed out loud - 2,000 miles in a what? Well, my best friend had an old Chevy. What could go wrong?
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In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.
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You can't be an American if you don't speak English. Our public schools should be mandated to teach all children in English.
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We donate a lot of food to rescue organizations.
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I don't really have any hobbies.
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The country has become much more conservative, partly because it's been taken over by the religious right.
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I met the Coens here a few years ago and they said they liked my work.
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If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century.
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I used to look in the mirror and feel shame, I look in the mirror now and I absolutely love myself.
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Underground, the stars are legend.
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I was neitherLiving nor dead, and I knew nothing, Looking into the heart of light, the silence.
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How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
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One was a Cartoon Artist with a heart like chiffon and a wit as accidentally malicious as the jab of a pin in a flirt's belt.
