Kay Boyle Quotes
The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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Oh, it is quite possible that none of us in 'Downton' will ever again get the ratings this has had. But from a career point of view, it has opened so many doors.
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I have a B.S. in Biology from MIT, an M.Sc. in Human Biology and a Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology from Oxford University, and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School. I never intended for so many degrees, but I enjoyed getting them all.
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Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets.
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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
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The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories.
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I saw a feeding about a lion for plants, I saw leaves of luxuriant growth. I saw a branch with equal blossoms. Did I not see a prince? most liberal his customs, I saw the ruler of Cathraeth beyond the plains Be my oak the gleaming spirit of the Cymry.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Balder holds up a completely blank rune. Wyrd. The beginning and the end. Fate. I don't know what that means, but it's not doing anything to uncreep me.
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You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!
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I've got to literally write my own ticket.
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Virtual simulations allow post-traumatic stress disorder sufferers to re-experience the events that traumatized them, and then slowly desensitize themselves to their impact through repeated recreations involving not just sight and sound but even smell.
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You can't shelter it. You can't hide it. You have to let people know what you're going through, what you're feeling, what you think you have that's a problem.
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Whenever I want to laugh, I read a wonderful book, 'Children's Letters to God.' You can open it anywhere. One I read recently said, 'Dear God, thank you for the baby brother, but what I prayed for was a puppy.'
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I'm actually not a big reader.
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I drank some coffee and my outlook improved immensely. I was ready to write some poems and, I don’t know, get drunk, run around, take my shirt off and get kicked out of someplace. You know, live a little.
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Overall, my life has been one of survival and the decisions that I have made along the way, including my identification, have been to survive.
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You don't always have to run. Take good time to watch first, then decide.
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Teaching is been seen as kind of a moral calling and not as an intellectual job.
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If you see yourself as entitled to a resource, and if you're not willing or incapable of seeing this other as a being with whom you can and should be in relation with, then you're going to take the resource.
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The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live.
