Anzia Yezierska Quotes

Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.

Anzia Yezierska

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: polish
  • Birth: October 29, 1880 - November 20, 1970

Topics

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We're just very lucky to have all these fans supporting us.

Jessica Jung

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I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959.

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

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We really need to change taxation policy so that it is not skewed against owning more than one house.

Andrew Forrest

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I like to work with the same people when I can, and you want to get people with the same interests that you have, and the same aesthetic.

Spike Lee

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I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional in that way.

Steve Wozniak

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I love period dramas and language, but I love comedy as well.

Robin McLeavy

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I want to give the American people assurances that we are protecting them.

Michael McCaul

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Librarians in America do something like a couple of billion dollars worth of book business every year.

Michael Moore

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The French press can be very harsh, and the one thing they can't bear is multi-tasking. They despise it to the highest degree, so from the age of five I've been taught that if I did two things at the same time, it meant I didn't know how to do one. It's an obsession that they have.

Lou Doillon

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It is worse than immoral, it's a mistake.

Dean Acheson

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When I go in to fight week, I go, 'Maybe I'm going to be that guy on the highlight reel that gets knocked out.' I'm always thinking, 'How am I going to react? Am I going to be a sore loser?' I'm almost checking myself in case something bad happens.

Brian Ortega

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I just spent a lot of time on 'ER' for that eight years. I also started working when I was 16, so by the time I left 'ER,' I was 40 years old, I had this incredible experience, my wife had this great company, we had four kids, it was like, 'Let's go to New York and live for a while and make that the priority.'

Anthony Edwards

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