Charlotte Bronte Quotes
That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life; that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed poison as if it were nectar.
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I'm greedy, and I have a house to pay for and a wife. She has a job of her own, but I bleed her dry. She's on her third shift right now.
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I'm not a very technical musician at all.
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The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it's all about the building and the intensity of support on the far left and far right wings of both parties. And we have forgotten about the people here in the middle.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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I work in a very contained environment, usually.
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You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.
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What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
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What an extraordinary thing it can be, love, how it will not defined by gender, by sexuality, by race, by religion, by anything. It's something else. It's something other.
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Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.
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I would have never signed the Patriot Act. I would have never signed the National Defense Authorization Act allowing for arrests and detainment of you and me as U.S. citizens without being charged.
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It has seemed, at times, like American carmakers think car buyers are so blindly loyal that they will keep coming back - despite the sticker shock - for crummy cars that guzzle gas, fall apart too soon, and cost too much to repair.
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Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.
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The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.
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I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.
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London audiences have this reputation for being a bit too cool for school.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
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You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
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A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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If you are ever wondering, 'If I have thinner thighs and shinier hair will I be happier?' you just need to meet a group of models because they have the thinnest thighs and the shiniest hair and the coolest clothes and they're the most physically insecure women on the planet.
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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
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One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.
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My best friend is my husband.
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Our effort was fantastic. Unfortunately, our execution wasn't that good.
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That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life; that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed poison as if it were nectar.
