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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When I learned that flour pound for pound has as many calories as sugar, and that when eating pasta you're basically eating cake, I was size 23, and my neck was restricting my breathing, and so I got on a microbiotic diet and got myself an exercise bike.
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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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When I write a goal down - and I truly write them down - it becomes a part of me. That's a contract that I sign with myself to say, 'I don't care what happens - I'm going to stay on this path. I'm going to try and see this through; I'm going to give it my best shot, my best effort.'
Gail Devers
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Growing up, I was not used to good things happening to me.
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Love is not love that wounded bleeds And bleeding sullies slow. Come death within my hands and I Unto my love will go.
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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The typewriter separated me from a deeper intimacy with poetry, and my hand brought me closer to that intimacy again.
