Harper Lee Quotes

I hoped to be able to write a novel which would enable me to live on it while I wrote the next.

Harper Lee

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 28, 1926 - February 19, 2016

Topics

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I don't know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I'm not leading them to some false God or something like that.

Joel Osteen

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I always think plot is what you fall back on if you can't write, to keep things going.

Meg Rosoff

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It was more exciting to get that first book published, I think.

Robert McCloskey

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The only way back toward a democracy and economy that work for the majority is for most of us to get politically active once again, becoming organized and mobilized.

Robert Reich

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Private equity firms aren't necessarily evil by definition. There are many stories of successful turnarounds fueled by private equity, often involving multiple floundering businesses that are rolled into a single entity, eliminating duplicative overhead.

Matt Taibbi

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Traveling to the Middle East and playing music for people on the street, for soldiers, for people in hospitals, and for people who lost their homes, and seeing people open up through the experience of music really restored my faith in music, in art, and in culture to change things.

Michael Franti

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Like education, healthcare also needs to be given importance.

Shiv Nadar

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Racing is full of 'what-ifs.' Like anything else in life, you learn from your mistakes and move on to the next challenge.

Robby Gordon

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The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.

Ron Paul

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One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

Lucille Ball

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You might think that after 40 years of practice you wouldn't need to practice anymore, but sadly it doesn't work that way. You still have to keep chugging away and perfecting.

Joshua Bell

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A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government.

Joseph Story

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