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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Those albums are so important to me because, for the first time, I was making my own music, paying for it, finding strengths in it, and going through the process of finding the right music for the record.
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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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Sexy ain't guys like Churchill and Lincoln.
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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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Hair long, money long. Me and broke niggas, we dont get along.
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When a president makes life and death decisions, he should draw strength and wisdom from broad and deep experience with the reasons for and the risks of committing our children to our defense. For no matter how many others are involved in the decision, the president is a lonely man in a dark room when the casualty reports come in.
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Even a correct decision is wrong when it was taken too late.
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Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart's willingness to feel whatever is present.
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The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live.
