Doe Quotes
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There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story.
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Nature does require her time of preservation, which perforce, I her frail son amongst my brethren mortal, must give my attendance to.
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They see Hermione as someone who is not vulnerable, but I see her as someone who does have quite a lot of vulnerability in her personality.
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It’s sad, y’know, what money does to people.
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I've learned... That to ignore the facts does not change the facts.
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God does not flunk any of His children. He just re-enrolls them.
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Does God proclaim Himself in the wonders of creation? No. All things proclaim Him, all things speak. Their beauty is the voice by which they announce God, by which they sing, "It is you who made me beautiful, not me myself but you.
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Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.
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Objectivity consists in understanding that the only one who never makes a mistake is the one who never does anything.
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It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government [Economic] policies will work.
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Only death does not lie.
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I think everybody should have a great Wonderbra. There's so many ways to enhance them, everybody does it.
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Describe your product in terms of what it does not in terms of what it is.
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God does not change us in order to love us. He loves us in order to change us.
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Watercolors is the first and the last thing an artist does.
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I know what the world is like. Nobody does anything unless there's something in it for themselves. But there are some people who do more than they have to for what they get in return, and those people are kind right to the heart.
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If through practice of insight you develop a sense of ease, then time has no relevance. If you're miserable, time does matter. It's so unbearable, so enormous you want to get out of it as soon as possible.
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The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.
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Sure God's all powerful, but does he have lips?
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You can't point a camera at someone and find out what's in their head. But it does the next best thing - it lets you speculate.
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I often heard the same question: What place does Russia reserve for itself in the world; how does it see itself; what is its place? We are a peace-loving state and we want to cooperate with all of our neighbors and with all of our partners.
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The most important thing to teach your children is that the sun does not rise and set. It is the Earth that revolves around the sun. Then teach them the concepts of North, South, East and West, and that they relate to where they happen to be on the planet's surface at that time. Everything else will follow.
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God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity.
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A writer's life is so hazardous that anything he does is bad for him. Anything that happens to him is bad: failure's bad, success is bad; impoverishment is bad, money is very, very bad. Nothing good can happen... Except the act of writing.
