Charlotte Bronte Quotes
No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.
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I've discovered that the standard all-American dream of fame and fortune is not success for me. Success for me is simply the joy of working - doing good work - and then bringing that joy home to my family. But if what I do in my work doesn't enrich my life with my family, I'm doing the wrong thing.
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Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the U.S. food supply and overall economy is real.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
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Jaipur, like Florence or Kyoto, other artisan-rich cities to which it roughly compares, has always been known for its craftsmanship.
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I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.
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The red-carpet thing of premieres and parties is probably my least favourite part of my job.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films.
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I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
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'Rednecks' always made me nervous to play, but I'm glad I wrote it and I continue to play it. It's just that the language is so rough.
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Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God.
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Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.
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Look at what realists have done for us. They have led us to war and climate change, poverty on an unimaginable scale, and wholesale ecological destruction. Half of humanity goes to bed hungry because of all the realistic leaders in the world. I tell people who call me 'unrealistic' to show me what their realism has done. Realism is an outdated, overplayed and wholly exaggerated concept.
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No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure.
