Dani Shapiro Quotes
The mind is a monkey, hopping around from thought to thought, image to image. Rarely do more than a few seconds go by in which the mind can remain single-pointed, empty.
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Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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My public in Guadalajara and the people from Guadalajara, they've supported me since day one.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
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All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.'
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Without a dog, you'll be without at least one creature who thinks you are the smartest, most decent and heroic human being on the planet.
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Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
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Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
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I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.
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Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be something I would not be able or even want to do, although with the amazing example of Leila, I am no longer so sure.
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The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
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Stay focused on the mission.
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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out.
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Difficulty comes not only because of your mistakes, but once you try to make an excuse or accuse someone else, your mind stops thinking.
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It may not happen in my lifetime, but if I can play a part in moving things along, then I feel I've done a good job.
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But if you don't enjoy doing something, you'll be miserable no matter how much money you make.
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All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
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The mind is a monkey, hopping around from thought to thought, image to image. Rarely do more than a few seconds go by in which the mind can remain single-pointed, empty.
