Gertrude Atherton Quotes
It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.
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Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.
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I'm a big fan of Katy Perry.
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I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave.
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I love the Coen brothers. They're so brilliant, and they always surprise you in one way or another. 'A Serious Man' was awesome. I like stuff like that, that kind of throws you for a loop. It takes you on a journey that is unexpected.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.
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The Founders believed liberty came directly from God. With their knowledge of Scripture, they knew each child was made in the image of God. That is why everyone had dignity, value and worth.
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Prohibition of substances which give pleasure to people does not work. Addiction is a health problem, not a moral one, and there are many proven strategies which can reduce its burden.
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Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.
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I used to just sit in the living room and make up songs on the keyboard.
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Usually, TED only invites the most accomplished and famous people in the world to give talks.
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A Reagan appointee, Justice Kennedy is no liberal, as he has shown on issues from affirmative action to corporate campaign spending. But he has repeatedly sided with gay litigants before the court.
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That's what we're striving for, making us a contender in every race.
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There is no such thing as emotional incompatibility. There are only misunderstandings and mistakes which can easily be set right if we have the will to do so.
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Being uprooted from your own culture, provided you take with you the way of thinking and being that characterises the more integrated social culture from which you come, is not as disruptive to happiness and well-being as becoming part of a relatively fragmented culture.
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I'm not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around, see who's sleeping with whom and go home and write a novel about society. It's not the way I work.
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Everybody I grew up with has incredible self-confidence and self-assurance. We were all loud, outspoken, wild kids and were celebrated for it.
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No war is over until the enemy says it's over.
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Be certain that in the religion of Love there are no believers and unbelievers. LOVE embraces all.
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You're not going to get off the couch and be at some amazing fast pace or burn crazy amounts of calories, but you have to start somewhere... Eventually, you'll get there.
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Since I became chairman, I've tried to turn EFF into civil liberties and responsibilities.
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It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.
