Anne Bradstreet Quotes
Fire hath its force abated by water, not by wind; and anger must be allayed by cold words, and not by blustering threats.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
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It is so difficult in the world for people to find love, true love.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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The problem of the minimum dwelling is that of establishing the elementary minimum of space, air, light, and heat required by man in order that he be able to fully develop his life functions without experiencing limitations due to his dwelling, i.e. a minimum modus vivendi in place of a modus non moriendi.
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.
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Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that.
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I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.
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An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
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Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.
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Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.
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I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
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I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
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I remember my own life as a small boy, son of Jewish immigrants, in a janitor's flat on Orchard and Stanton streets on the Lower East Side of New York City. My father made pants and doubled as janitor of a tenement - before he made janitoring at $30 a month, plus rooms, a career.
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Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you'll discover the creativity that connects you with others.
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When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young adult that if we don't teach our kids a better way of relating to their fellow human beings, the very future of humanity on the planet is in jeopardy.
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Fire hath its force abated by water, not by wind; and anger must be allayed by cold words, and not by blustering threats.
