Pablo Neruda Quotes
A book, a book full of human touches, of shirts, a book without loneliness, with men and tools, a book is victory.
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If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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We can power our economy without despoiling our wild places.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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We're raising a generation of kids who are being overly praised for incredibly minor accomplishments. I think it's counter-productive.
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While he was president, it was popular to be a Nixon hater.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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Video games and YouTube.com are creatively booming, even though Web design, as demonstrated by the ugly clutter of most major news sites, is in the pits.
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Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.
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I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'
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Every time someone asks me where I'm from, I'm not sure how to answer that question... so I say I have no roots.
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Books never pall on me. They discourse with us, they take counsel with us, and are united to us by a certain living chatty familiarity. And not only does each book inspire the sense that it belongs to its readers, but it also suggests the name of others, and one begets the desire of the other.
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I'm kicking myself in the rear end every day, saying, 'Did I really book this many shows? What am I doing?'
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My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.
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I came into politics because I wished to change things. You can't do that by lying to people; you have to educate, and persuade, and carry them with you - and it's often a long haul.
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A book, a book full of human touches, of shirts, a book without loneliness, with men and tools, a book is victory.
