Chaim Potok Quotes
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
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A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.
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The myopic obsession of the Tea Party with destroying health care reform and wounding the president has led Republicans astray.
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I'm so happy to be in a committed relationship.
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If you have a happy home, everything is sorted, I guess.
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I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.
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Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
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I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.
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Well, my constituents are happy that the Republican Party has finally gotten off its duff, seeing that we do control the House and the Senate and the presidency, and taken up the issue of illegal immigration.
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The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is happy; he is merely existing. The joyous life is the one filled with rich relationships.
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If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.
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I'd be happy if, during my mandate, the Palestinian state existed.
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I turned 40 on the set of the reunion show for 'Sheer Genius,' so it wasn't a hideous birthday because I had everyone on the cast and crew sing 'Happy Birthday' to me, and I won $10,000 for being the fan favorite. It was really liberating to turn 40 and realize that I felt very comfortable with myself and knew who I was.
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My hardest thing was to let go, to be happy for everybody and just to enjoy. And go back to being what you were before you became an artist, and that was just a fan.
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I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy.
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All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.
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When I first ran for Congress, I went to my daughter Alexandra, who was going to be a senior in high school, and said: 'I have a chance to run. I may not win, but I'd be gone three nights a week. So, if you want me to stay, I'll be happy to.' And do you know what she said to me? 'Mother, get a life!'
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When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could see that it got better, that they were happy and loved and supported. I saw with my own eyes that it got better.
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I feel like, maybe in the '90s, 'Rookie' would have been shamed for trying to reach a lot of people or trying to be 'mainstream', but I'm so pleased that our readers are happy to see me promoting the 'Rookie' yearbook on TV or whatever.
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My goal is to make my kids as happy as possible.
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...who proved that you don't have to do what your parents want, or what your boyfriend wants, for you to be happy. You just have to be yourself, for there is no love greater than self love.
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I sometimes get caught up in the big goals...That aren't really the ultimate goal, which is to be happy for what you have.
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I get slightly obsessive about working in archives because you don't know what you're going to find. In fact, you don't know what you're looking for until you find it.
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Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.
