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"It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes."
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"You think that if you blame, you will then be free of those problems, but blame cements you to your problems."
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"Maybe it ain't about others' mistakes,but only your need for someone to blame."
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"That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery."
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"Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos."
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"Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims."
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"And just so you know-that winter forest we walked into first? That was from Through the Looking Glass too. Hey, if you're going to saddle me with the blame for your overconsumption, at least get the book right."
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"Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism."
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"The reason placing blame repeatedly fails to work is that I repeatedly place it on everyone else instead of where it actually belongs."
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"Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."
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"It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame."
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"I had a wonderful childhood, but I was a wanderer from year one."
Childhood
"When I started to sing, my mother would have me engaged to perform at the Women's Christian Temperance Union national or annual meetings. I would hate doing this because I wanted to play baseball or go off skiing."
Woman
"I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family."
Family
"By the time I was four, I would walk around the corner and wait at a local streetcar stop, get on the streetcar with somebody who looked like they could be my mother and go to the end of the line."
Time
"I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application from the Juilliard School but they wouldn't even give me one because I didn't have my high school graduation."
Graduation
"Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to be worked at very hard."
People
"My book has a lot of parts of my life that people don't know about."
Life
"I have been all over the world. I have met some wonderful people, lots of them very simple, whom nobody will ever hear about, but who have been fabulous to me."
People
"My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children. She was always arranging church activities such as a bazaar."
Mother
"Making a living in the arts, though, creates so many jobs for other people."
People
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