Charlotte Bronte Quotes
Rochester: I am to take mademoiselle to the moon, and there I shall seek a cave in one of the white valleys among the volcano-tops, and mademoiselle shall live with me there, and only me.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not willing to commit American taxpayers' money anymore or American troops on the ground in another Middle Eastern country.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented combination. From the very beginning we know the town of Macondo will endure only a century, so there is a limit to the length of the narrative.
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I'm a big sports fan - mainly basketball.
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Many of the companies in the mobile location space are trying to figure out different ways to tie what they're doing to commerce.
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Many Americans who have suffered during a recession have had to cut their spending 1 percent, and they didn't like doing it, but they were able to do it to get their family's finances back in order.
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'Halal in the Family' will expose a broad audience to some of the realities of being Muslim in America. By using satire, we will encourage people to reconsider their assumptions about Muslims, while providing a balm to those experiencing anti-Muslim bias. I also hope those Uncles and Aunties out there will crack a smile!
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I first heard the story of Agnes Magnusdottir when I was an exchange student in the north of Iceland.
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It's funny, because readers think they want the characters to be blissfully happy, but it makes it kind of boring for the reader.
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Right after 9/11 there was a magazine with a cover of kids, mostly 12-14 year-olds, who were being trained for military combat. I thought that this had just gone too far.
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That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user!
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One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.
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When you have no one to answer to, vendetta as investment strategy is as legitimate as anything.
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And frankly, I don't understand - I mean, I'm obviously a card-carrying Democrat - but I can't understand why any woman would want to vote for Mitt Romney, except maybe Mrs. Romney.
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What fascinated me, it was not the glory, but the contact with the public.
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Cotton Mather is one of those classic figures of American history who can't be left out. One has to explain him or explain him away, redeem him or denounce him.
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Nothing embitters my old age like the circulation of absurd stories that I retire as civilization advances, that I shun the white men and seek the Indians, and that now even when old, I seek to retire beyond the second Alleganies.
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As a toy fruit or a toy elephant reminds one of the real fruit and the living animal, so do the images that are worshipped remind one of the God who is formless and eternal.
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My occupation is syncopation. But, every time, my syncopation is different, because I can never play the same fill twice. I just can't, never have been able to.
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(Talking about what he wants at his funeral)
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I know there is an eye that watches all of us. There is a judgment that weighs everything we do. And before this great force, which is greater than any government I stand in awe and I kneel in respect and it is to this great judgment that I dedicate this next song, 'Hallelujah'.
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I don't think we're going to build a 50-person spacecraft or a 100-person spacecraft.
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Rochester: I am to take mademoiselle to the moon, and there I shall seek a cave in one of the white valleys among the volcano-tops, and mademoiselle shall live with me there, and only me.
