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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It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.
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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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The problem with the Tea Party is that it's been used in a way that scares people into supporting an agenda that's counter to their own interests.
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Radio astronomers are aware in the back of their minds that if there are other civilizations out there in space, it might be the radio astronomers who first pick up the signal.
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I think a nuclear detonation is society-altering in ways that other attacks, even as horrific as 9/11, are not. This isn't because we have power-hungry political leaders, but I think it might be demanded by the people themselves out of fear.
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Maybe I've had a sheltered life and career, but I have so many role models to look up to. It's normal that I would strive to build my own career.
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Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.
