Benjamin Cardozo Quotes
With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for guidance or for warning, to the study of examples.
Quotes to Explore
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Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.
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It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman.
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If we slide into a pattern of just thinking about today, we'll end up reacting to yesterday instead of shaping something more constructive in the world.
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If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.
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I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
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Gee I don't know, I just want to get home.
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My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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I want any kid who listens to my music to see that I am confident with all elements of my personality that I can't change.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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Most Americans probably have no idea how hostile anti-abortion sidewalk counseling outside clinics can be. There's a reason pro-choicers volunteer to escort patients as they make their way past angry crowds to the clinic door.
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The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in inner-city New York where a musical revolution was taking place - folk music, rock n' roll, gospel music. My sister taught me to sing. My brothers taught me to play.
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Change is the one thing we can be sure of.
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A woman driver went through a red light. The cop stopped her and said, Lady, didn't you see that red light? The woman said, You've seen one, you've seen them all.
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The oars game me power but also taught me humility.
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I attended the climate talks in Copenhagen in 2009, and back then, national governments waited until days before to submit climate plans, and the U.S. based its pledge on a proposed bill that would fail in the Senate.
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The AIDS virus is not more powerful than God.
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With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for guidance or for warning, to the study of examples.
