Lillian Hellman Quotes
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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Bitcoin is both disruptive from a technology perspective, but there's a tremendous power of social good behind it. So you can both build a cool business or have a great investment return, and there's the promise of potentially improving the remittance industry or banking the unbanked.
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Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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I can stay up watching TV so late.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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Over the years, God and St. Therese have kept me going no matter how bad things were.
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I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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As a state senator and then a congressman, I've had the privilege of trying to do good things for people to whom I owe so much and can never fully repay.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.
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Violence is a tool of the ignorant.
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What you are about to read is not an aberration: it can happen in your local university too. The Big U, simply, was a few years ahead of the rest.
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Homophobia is manufactured in high schools, so it's probably useful to keep in mind that it really does bother people.
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We don't know how much we are capable of loving until the people we love are being taken away, until a beautiful story is ending.
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I like to be entertained, not smothered with 'literary' riddles.
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The other work we started in 1992, it is called Over the River, Project for the Arkansas River in the state of Colorado, we haven't got the permit yet. And, we are working at both of those, trying to get the permit. Therefore, we do not know which one will be realized next.
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Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
