Secret Quotes
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Whenever I would get too nosy as a child, my grandmother would say, "When you learn someone else's secret, your own secrets aren't safe. Dig up one, release them all.
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I don't think secrets are a bad thing. I think there's this idea that everything needs to be transparent in order for it to be free.
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It's a secret and if you tell a secret the secret comes alive and can never be kept safe at home again.
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In some way the secret vice exhales its poison; and the evil passion, however cunningly masked, stains through to the surface.
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We have all our secret sins; and if we knew ourselves we should not judge each other harshly.
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The whole secret of abundant living can be summed up on this sentence: 'Not your responsibility but your response to God's ability'.
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All families have their secrets, most people would never know them, but they know there are spaces, gaps where the answers should be, where someone should have sat, where someone used to be. A name that is never uttered, or uttered just once and never again. We all have our secrets.
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It's hardly a news flash that a secret, clandestine intelligence agency might resist giving out information about its operations when not not legally required to do so.
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That's probably the biggest secret of acting: If the actor believes it themselves, they can make you believe it.
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He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.
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But a person’s smell and their alarms and borrowed shirts and secret words linger for a long time. Much longer than a house.
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On average, once a month for the last 10 years since her [Harper Lee] stroke, we have sat and talked and told stories and exchanged insults... Which she loves. I think one secret to our friendship was I did not treat her like a marble woman, and my wife - I joked with her, and I joked with her, and that was the sort of contours of our friendship.
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The secret of happiness lies in the mind's release from worldly ties.
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When you realize your potential to feel good, you will ask no one to be different in order for you to feel good.
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Honey is a magic elixir—made from the tiny drops of nectar taken from hearts of flowers, carried by little bee feet to a secret cave where it is transformed by time into thick gold sweetness.
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To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.
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Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.
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Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step.
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What a great blessing is a friend with a heart so trusty you may safely bury all your secrets in it.
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Joel Lane documents a life we don’t quite live, in a city we can’t quite find: half glimpsed and half imagined, we know it’s out there somewhere. Waiting, maybe. Mixing fear with desire, reputation with regret. Touching the blood-beat of our secret hunger with the rhythms of a music that never felt alien till now. Wasted lives, with never a wasted word. It’s an extraordinary achievement: vivid as neon, real as rain. Devastating.
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The artist is living a secret that he has to make manifest.
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What do dancers think of Fred Astaire? It's no secret. We hate him. He gives us a complex because he's too perfect. His perfection is an absurdity. It's too hard to face.
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I'd learned that some things are best kept secret.
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I think you keep two sets of books. In one set, you record the truth -- how well you are really doing. This is the secret set -- just for you and loved ones. In the other set are more modest entries and statements, and these are for public consumption!
