Daphne du Maurier Quotes
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There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility.
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As I moved to less and less diverse places in my life, I realized that white people don't talk about race amongst themselves!
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As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.
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I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it.
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On June 23, 1864, Ambrose Bierce was in command of a skirmish line of Union soldiers at Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia. He'd been a soldier for three years and, in that time, had been commended by his superiors for his efficiency and bravery during battle.
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It doesn't matter if you look different. You're still the same as everybody else because you have the same dream.
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My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignity.
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I wanted to greet people in Telugu, so I asked someone how to say 'How are you' in Telugu. In fact, I instructed my entire staff to speak to me only in Telugu. So, there were times when I would ask them to translate certain words for me in Hindi, but the effort paid off.
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Anything that happens in your life was meant to happen. It is your destiny. I was destined to have the life I have now, and I can't have any regrets.
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
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The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.
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Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
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I always said all my life if I wasn't born and they gave me the question I'd say I don't want to be born.
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I have the same friends and the same bad habits.
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As women, I think it helps that we are complex creatures by nature so just being a woman helps to understand a woman's journey.
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I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it.
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I was in the streets at eight, nine years old.
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I don't just want to be someone who hits the ball 100 per cent every time. You can play with freedom and still mix up the pace, mix up the spins and everything like that. That's what I want to be doing, because you get into that very one-dimensional kind of tennis if you don't work on slicing and coming into the net.
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But eradicating corruption is not enough to sustain a country.
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When I got engaged to be married, it was assumed that I would quit science and be a housewife. It was considered shameful if a married woman had to work - it implied that her husband couldn't earn enough to keep her.
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Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to acquire art, with few exceptions.
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In no way can it be uttered, as can other things, which one can learn. Rather, from out of a full, co-existential dwelling with the thing itself - as when a spark, leaping from the fire, flares into light - so it happens, suddenly, in the soul, there to grow, alone with itself.
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We did 10 years of working and travelling constantly, and we were just knackered. I thought: 'I've got to take a break.' I felt like I was going mad. I decided to move to Cornwall.
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All autobiography is self-indulgent.
