Pablo Neruda Quotes
The typewriter separated me from a deeper intimacy with poetry, and my hand brought me closer to that intimacy again.
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So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't mean they're good.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.
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I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.
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Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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I'm from working-class, blue-collar America, and I don't believe that people in that socioeconomic strata wait until they're 40 to have children.
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Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.
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Bad ballplayers make good managers.
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As a boy, I was a member of a club run by the famous reptile showman Ross Allen, and the club sent its members pseudoscientific papers mimeographed on construction paper with a three-hole punch.
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We're all living blinkered lives, and we're not seeing what's going on and looking to change it. I'm not saying that everyone has to make a political statement, but we need to be more aware of what's happening and why.
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There was a point I could have just churned out the spot and spin paintings for ever and laughed all the way to the bank.
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Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse. It's time to return to our Founders' love for small government. More is not always better.
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I don't think Christ becomes real to us until we hit a low point in our lives and realize just how much we need Him. That's why faith affects every area of your life.
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Growing up, I was not used to good things happening to me.
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I started out in a professional choir at 13 years old. We traveled to different places, and I had a close relationship with the leaders of our choir. We were recording when I was 15, so it wasn't like I had to wait until 25 to find out certain things.
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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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The god of the world is the gold and the silver. The world worships this god. It is all-powerful to them, though they might not be willing to acknowledge it. Now it is designed, in the providence of God, that the Latter-day Saints should show whether they have so far advanced in the knowledge, in the wisdom and in the power of God that they cannot be overcome by the god of the world. We must come to that point.
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He cannot "tempt" to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles.
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He must deny his right to himself, and he must realize who Jesus Christ is before he will bring himself to do it. Beware of refusing to go to the funeral of your own independence.
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The typewriter separated me from a deeper intimacy with poetry, and my hand brought me closer to that intimacy again.
