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 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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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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Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
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I have been sober for the longest time. Oh, it's over a decade now. No joke.
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Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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Two successive commissioners in London police were fired by the mayor that came into office. That doesn't mean the police in London is not independent and does not exercise powers. Ultimately it is the political executive that has to answer.
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Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.
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I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.
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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.
