Delia Sherman Quotes
I've always loved stories of animals and birds that can appear to be human, just by taking off their skins or their feathers.
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I am a human being. When you are frustrated, you do cry. It's more than once that I cried.
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I am passionate about human rights.
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
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Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
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For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.
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Always, in every human action, there are leaders.
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This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
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Being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself - be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter.
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Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions.
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Generally, it is human endeavour to have young people lead, and you see that in public life in the U.S. and everywhere.
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The purest joy for the human spirit and the sheerest delight for man's heart are the rapture of the spirit contained within the love of God.
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The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
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I think that the worst thing is realizing that mankind - that - that human beings can be so horrible to other human beings.
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I pecked my stories out two-fingered on the Remington portable typewriter my mother had bought me. I had begged for it when I was ten.
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Maybe I should mention it: I was not from the beginning mainly interested in papilloma virus; I was mainly interested in infectious agents in human cancer. So papilloma viruses came up as the most likely candidate from my viewpoint.
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A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.
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A genuinely fundamental and hopeful improvement in "systems" cannot happen without a significant shift in human consciousness.
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Choices may be unbelievably hard but they're never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.
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These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.
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I actually hope people don't react to 'Impossible' in a way where they think it's terribly retro. The plot needed to do what it needed to do. But I'm a little surprised to find myself looking a little bit like an advocate of teen marriage. It takes some exceptional circumstances for that to be a reasonable idea.
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I came to love, I came into my own.
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I've always loved stories of animals and birds that can appear to be human, just by taking off their skins or their feathers.
