Dorothea Dix Quotes

Indulged habits of dependence create habits of indolence, and indolence opens the portal to petty errors, to many degrading habits, and to vice and crime with their attendant train of miseries.

Dorothea Dix

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 4, 1802 - July 17, 1887

Topics

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Life is very tough. If you don't laugh, it's tough.

Joan Rivers

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Running is how I clear my head and find my center again.

Summer Sanders

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Acting is something I've done since I was in high school, but I never had a model in my life, whether it was a mentor or a parent, where I could realize that acting could actually be a career.

Steve Zissis

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My daughter is far more talented than me in the songwriting department - far more.

Sissy Spacek

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We realized the best way to monetize content was through a subscription model.

Trip Adler

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One of my very favorite television shows growing up was 'The Prisoner.'

Roger Avary

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We humans are still a very primitive culture, and it's one of the traps we've fallen into over the course of our lives - to forget our history. That's why George Orwell's 'Animal Farm' is so profound. It chronicles our short memory.

RuPaul

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I think always having somebody that you trust and you know can help in the communication, that is very important.

Luis Videgaray Caso

CommunicationTrustThinkHelpYou

'The Empty Bank' talks about really specific instances where I kind of make the wrong moves based off of money, and it also details instances where I was acting like I had money when I really didn't have that much money.

Jay IDK

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I don't think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way.

Christopher Hitchens

ThinkWayAnythingChangedSouls

There's a very old tradition of theater actors doing their own makeup. It's like putting on your mask. There's an element of storytelling involved in it - you put on your character when you put on your makeup. At least, that's how I like to look at it.

Phillipa Soo

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Look, very clearly there are things that need to be done urgently in relation to climate change, and of those the most obvious is to have an enforceable and equitable arrangement delivering deep cuts in emissions into the middle of the century.

Peter Garrett

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