Anzia Yezierska Quotes
I'm very keen on making the world a better place, whether that's changing people's attitudes or giving people the confidence to be who they are.
Anzia Yezierska
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In poetry, I have, since very young, loved poetry in translation. The Chinese, the French, the Russians, Italians, Indians and early Celts: the formality of the translator's voice, their measured breath and anxiety moves me as it lingers over the original.
Fanny Howe
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I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.'
Pat Conroy
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I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.
Felix Baumgartner
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My very first job was a cashier at Burger King in Tucson, Arizona. And I occasionally worked the drive-thru. I'd go wherever I was needed! My second job was at Dairy Queen. I stayed in the fast food royalty.
Kate Walsh
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My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.
Ian Harding
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I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once.
Rafael Nadal
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The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford
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Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.
Laura Schlessinger
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People think that there is a country there that these people are only around when they are on CNN. I don't think that's limited to Haiti.
Edwidge Danticat
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Having still in my recollection so many excellent men, to whose grandfathers, upon the same spots, my grandfather had yielded cheerful obedience and reverence, it is not without sincere sorrow that I have beheld many of the sons of these men driven from their fathers' mansions, or holding them as little better than tenants or stewards, while the swarms of Placemen, Pensioners, Contractors, and Nabobs... have usurped a large part of the soil.
William Cobbett
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I have the insecurities of any actress, I suppose of any woman. Even the most beautiful ones feel unhappy. Look at Bardot: she was suicidal. But I like to play with the camera. I like to ham it up.
Chloe Sevigny
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I'm very keen on making the world a better place, whether that's changing people's attitudes or giving people the confidence to be who they are.
Anzia Yezierska
