Nathaniel Parker Willis Quotes
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My heart reaches out to those whose loved ones were lost on MH17.
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He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within.
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If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.
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My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart.
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You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good.
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I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
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We collectively have a special place in our heart for the manned space flight program - Apollo nostalgia is one element, but that is only part of it. American culture worships explorers - look at the fame of Lewis and Clark, for example. The American people want to think of themselves as supporting exploration.
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Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. The doctor/psychiatrist figures in my writing are alter egos of a kind, what I would have been had I not become a writer - a personal fantasy that I've fed into my fiction.
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When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.
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Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.
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We live in an age which eschews sentimentality as if it were a good deal more than the devil. (Actually, of course, a writer may be just as sentimental in laying undue emphasis on sexual crimes as on dying mothers: sentimental, like scientific, is an adjective that relates to method, not to matter.)
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In the heart of Europe runs the purest stream of human love, of justice, of spirit of self-sacrifice for higher ideals. The Christian culture of centuries has sunk deep in her life's core. In Europe we have seen noble minds who have ever stood up for the rights of man irrespective of colour and creed.
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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes; The glorious fault of Angels and of Gods.
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Oh, where is there the heart but knowsLove's first steps are upon the rose!
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I know-yet my arms are empty,That fondly folded seven,And the mother heart within meIs almost starved for heaven.
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There's a long relationship between science fiction and the 'novel of ideas,' and I think writers of science fiction are able to draw on that tradition to take risks, to constantly raise the level of their ambition.
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Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they've always been very supportive. But they were adamant that I went to university first.
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When done with heart, commitment, and integrity, every job is equally important.
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A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.
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Black holes destroy any objects that happen to fall victim to their gravitational pull.
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It can be really powerful to write something when you're sad.
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We need safe communities that are free from methamphetamine and a federal commitment to stand next to state leadership and law enforcement in the fight against this epidemic.
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How like a mounting devil in the heart rules the unreined ambition.
