Eva Hoffman Quotes
If primness is a small recoil of distaste at things that give others simple and hearty pleasure, then prim is what I'm really becoming.
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
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A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.
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You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild, I want to wake up and hear birds, I want to walk outside and see a gaggle of turkeys bouncing across my lawn - I want to be someplace like that - or I want to be right in the middle of an urban environment.
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I like to get a salad or fruit in me - just some good energy food - and then a plate a pasta with a breast of chicken.
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What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.
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If you have a group of people come together around a vision for real discipleship, people who are committed to grow, committed to change, committed to learn, then a spiritual assessment tool can work.
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I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.
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I may have said the same thing before...but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.
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As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
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If it's a broken part, replace it. If it's a broken arm then brace it. If it's a broken heart, then face it.
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Genius is the art of taking pains.
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I really don't think this show is going to work, ... ...I'd like to see them put a lion or a tiger on the island, but I really don't think that would happen.
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I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me
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A poet feels the impulse to create a work of art when the passive awe provoked by an event is transformed into a desire to express that awe in a rite of worship.
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My passion is to open people's eyes to the sea using the power of photography as a universal language to convince the unconvinced among us that the oceans are fragile and finite.
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The thing that overwhelms me when I go out now is the sprawlation of America.
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The Stones don't really need to do it for money, so they must get some kind of pleasure out of it. They're not like a group that's disbanded and gone away and made a comeback. They've always been there.
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There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.
