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Helen Mirren

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CHARLES MANSON Effort: You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
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HELEN KELLER I know that faith made my life possible and that of many others like me... Reason hardly warranted A...
HELEN KELLER Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with th...
HELEN HAYES Humility is like underwear; essential, but indecent if it shows.
HELEN NIELSEN Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.
HELEN MACINNESS When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of ano...
HELEN KELLER To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is ...
HELEN ROWLAND A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a r...
HELEN ROWLAND What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
HELEN KELLER My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was ...
HELEN KELLER Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across thousands of miles and all the years we have live...
HELEN KELLER As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens th...
HELEN KELLER Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
HELEN KELLER If you rest, you rust.
HELEN HAYES