Charlotte Bronte Quotes

And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.

Charlotte Bronte

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• You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.

  

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• I know all the critics.

  

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• I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.

  

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• Tony Orlando is one of the nicest guys I have ever met - bar none - in my entire life. I was always a fan when I was a kid - you know, huge fan. Who wasn't a fan of Tony Orlando?

  

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• I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.

  

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• The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

  

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• I was the first to advocate the Web. But I am very troubled by this thing that every kid must have a laptop computer. The kids are totally in the computer age. There's a whole new brain operation that's being moulded by the computer.

  

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• There may be a long list of things to do, but really, there is just one thing on the list at any time. If you think of it like that, the whole world looks different and you can stay quite calm. Maybe everything will get done eventually and maybe not. You can always have hope.

  

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• I was in Vietnam, and I was exposed to Agent Orange. And there's a high relationship between people that were exposed to Agent Orange and the kind of lymphoma that I had. The prostate cancer was genetic in my family. My father had prostate cancer, my - three of my four uncles had prostate cancer.

  

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• You know why I'm running for governor? Because everything we care about is under siege from President Donald Trump and Bruce Rauner.

  

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• My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.

  

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• Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

  

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• That Sid Vicious was obviously a schizophrenic, kind of a mean one too.

  

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• I have found that my fan base is a bit above average when compared to the common horror fan.

  

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• If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.

  

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• The stuff that I find really intriguing is always how do ordinary people behave in extraordinary circumstances. And that's why we have a lot of cop shows and lawyer shows and medical shows is that you're looking for situations that just always heighten the stakes.

  

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• I'll put my progressive credentials up against anyone's.

  

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• I would argue that we have a patriotic duty to move toward energy independence and clean energy. It is a matter of national security - energy security, climate security, economic security, job security, everything.

  

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• We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

  

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• Obstinacy alone is not a virtue.

  

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• I've always been so confused about being a girl. Not in a Bruce Jenner way, just... there's that expectation where you walk into a room, and it's like, Is it OK to be a woman?' Or, you know, you're looking for your keys in the back of a cab, and sometimes the driver can treat you like you've had a lobotomy.

  

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• My understanding from talking to a lot of people in the business has been that it used to be that a newspaper was considered a community service. Now they're being run as profit centers, and they're trying to get pretty high profit margins. As a result, investigative reporting has been seen as a problem.

  

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• And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Energy
  • Spirit
  • Virtue