Rachel Sklar Quotes
To be honest, I've been a passionate advocate for the value of tech to help us connect to people in real and emotional ways - and stick up for myself when people say, 'Sklar! Stop tweeting!'
Quotes to Explore
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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Life is too short to blend in.
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Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.
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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
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The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
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Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.
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As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.
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I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.
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Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
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Herbert Hoover failed through no fault of his own. The Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression were beyond his control, and every remedy he tried failed adequately to work.
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My mom would always play me a lot of late-'50s, late-'60s rock.
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In 1956, I received an invitation to a dedication of an observatory in the Soviet Union, in Soviet Armenia, as a guest of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
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Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?
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To be honest, I've been a passionate advocate for the value of tech to help us connect to people in real and emotional ways - and stick up for myself when people say, 'Sklar! Stop tweeting!'
