Adora Svitak Quotes
With writing, I can express myself, really, and share my ideas and just let my thoughts flow out.
Quotes to Explore
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Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.
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I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
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The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
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I was a huge fan of video games; I wanted to write something, and I saw the tools at my fingertips to upload a video to my audience, and that's why I'm here today. I think that freedom and the lack of gatekeepers, combined with people's passion, is what really the true spirit of Internet geekdom is about.
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Israel has a security concern involving geography. But geography does not have the same value it did in 1967.
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As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.
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Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
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I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
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I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.'
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Some friends are better shots than are casual enemies.
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If we want more trade in the world, we should establish bilateral trade agreements with other democratic countries. That way we can control the decision-making process. The major economic countries of the world will enter into those agreements.
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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
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The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years.
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If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.
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Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.
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When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born: but when I am content, I want to lie forever in the shade, till I become a shade myself.
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'Unjustly Maligned' is a neat idea for a podcast. Antony Johnston invites a believer to make the case for a cultural artefact that consensus tends to deride.
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The most important thing I feel in the acting profession is to create a community that reflects you back to you.
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It is the secret scandal of capitalism that at no point has it been organized primarily around free labor.
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I need therapy after writing. It's like leaking blood from a stone. It's brutally difficult but worth it.
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With writing, I can express myself, really, and share my ideas and just let my thoughts flow out.
