Sabine Baring-Gould Quotes
There is no myth relative to the manners and customs of the English that in my experience is more tenaciously held by the ordinary Frenchman than that the sale of a wife in the market-place is an habitual and an accepted fact in English life.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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A mom can't afford to be sick.
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
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I think I've always been somebody to break rules.
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With Nine Inch Nails, it's all Trent Reznor. So when we get a new record from Nine Inch Nails, it depends on what side of the bed Trent's waking up on and what he's been eating lately and what he's been into. Because he's preparing the whole meal.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.
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Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth.
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The acting bug just seemed to stick with me. I loved going to theatre school in college and continued to train in film classes and had been auditioning for T.V. and movie roles since I was in my late teens. My career has been slow and steady, and I kind of like it that way.
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I train for whatever happens. I'm prepared for wherever the fight goes.
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I think I'm very curious about other people. I like to sit and eavesdrop, you know.
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I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.
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I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
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A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
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And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.
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Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?
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We couldn't get along without him. We needed Johnny as much as he needed the gang. And for the same reason.
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My family is a part of my life and everything is all a mixture of enjoyment.
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We become pitiable and ridiculous when we imbibe an unreasoned mysticism in our life without any natural or substantial basis. People like us, who are proud to be revolutionary in every sense, should always be prepared to bear all the difficulties, anxieties, pain and suffering which we invite upon ourselves by the struggles initiated by us and for which we call ourselves revolutionary.
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I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.
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I don't mind people want to think Muhammad is the greatest fighter around. Everybody wants to make him great because of his mouth, that he was the best. He was good, but that doesn't make him great. I proved that.
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There is no myth relative to the manners and customs of the English that in my experience is more tenaciously held by the ordinary Frenchman than that the sale of a wife in the market-place is an habitual and an accepted fact in English life.
