Kathleen Dowling Singh Quotes
Something of defeat, something of tragedy, can be a sacrament because it stops us and causes us to look deeper.
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You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
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History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
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The calls that I have received from President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the fact that there are other people that are suffering every bit as much as I am, and that our whole nation is going through a tragedy together, I think we have to think about those things.
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Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
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I trust people too much, and the other tragedy is I can't say no.
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What having a Down's syndrome child isn't - and I feel very strongly about this - is a tragedy. All those pregnancy books you read when you are expecting refer to Down's syndrome as if it were the worst possible outcome, and it's not.
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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
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I find the female tragedy of insecurity to be hilarious. We get obsessed over issues like the tiny skin tags on our backs or that we're fat. You read one line in a magazine and it sends you into a tailspin.
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People ask me whether I see 'Star Wars' as a comedy or a tragedy, but it's really neither - it's partly a history, like 'Henry V,' and partly a fantasy, like 'The Tempest.'
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None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
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Sooner or later, Israel will have to defeat Hamas. There is no way around it.
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He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
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I think comedy's harder to pull off on the screen than on the stage, anyway. Tragedy is easier on the screen... oddly enough.
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The tragedy unfolding in Zimbabwe is driven by one man's ruthless campaign to hang on to power whatever the cost to others in the process.
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The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history.
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Tragedy when ridiculed by comedy does not condescend a reply.
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Though Stalinism may have been a needless tragedy for both the Russian people and communism as an ideal, there is the intellectually tantalizing possibility that for the world at large it was, as we shall see, a blessing in disguise.
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The tragedy is that everyone thinks they already have goals. But what they really have are hopes and wishes.
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What will happen when my heart stops beating?" Momo asked. When that moment comes," said the professor, "time will stop for you as well. Or rather, you will retrace your steps through time, through all the days and nights, myths and years of your life, until you go out through the great, round, silver gate you entered by." What will I find on the other side?" The home of the music you've sometimes faintly heard in the distance, but by then you'll be part of it. You yourself will be a note in its mighty harmonies.
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A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
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When I was younger I felt very disempowered, very disappeared. I felt worthless, like I had no right to exist. I think a good part of my life was spent recovering from that. Pulling myself out of that.
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I hate meeting my favorite bands because then it just ruins it.
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I told him he'd have a heart attack a year ago, but unfortunately he lived a year longer.
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Something of defeat, something of tragedy, can be a sacrament because it stops us and causes us to look deeper.
