Isabel Allende Quotes

I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong and resilient, as is the case of almost every human being exposed to life and to the world. We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.

Isabel Allende

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: chilean
  • Birth: August 2, 1942

Topics

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Throughout the world, our insistence on individual freedom and opportunity has been at the bottom of what people think when they hear the very word 'American.'

Jim Webb

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I am aware how difficult is the task to preserve free institutions over so wide a space and so immense a population, but we are blessed with a Constitution admirably calculated to accomplish it. Its elastic power is unequaled, which is to be attributed to its federal character.

John C. Calhoun

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I think sometimes in comedy the characters are often sacrificed for the joke, and it's more important for it to be funny than for there to be love.

Jenny Slate

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I think a lot of my songs are very silly and very stupid, written to entertain people, but in the end, I always come to that last line, and I feel that I have to wrap this up with a bit of dignity and a little tear in the eye; otherwise, the joke would be on the characters in the song.

Jens Lekman

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You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

Robert Kiyosaki

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Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?

Robert Orben

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I was always the last one chosen for football games in Central Park.

Merlin Olsen

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I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.

Steve Earle

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Attempting to write vocal oriented songs to me felt like going through the motions and if you are going to go through the motions you might as well just do any gig that caused you to do repetitive motions like banging a hammer or serving fries.

Ronnie Montrose

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I guess you could say I'm what this country is all about.

Mickey Mantle

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Philadelphians are a gritty, tough people who will help you when you're down.

Michael Nutter

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There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.

Lorraine Hansberry

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