Freya Stark Quotes
Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.
Quotes to Explore
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What I went through in 1976, it's the same today: It's about all the pressure that you feel, the anxiety, the family, and everything that surrounds the Games, and then getting there knowing this is your big chance, and you're able to come through. It's such a satisfying thing.
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It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
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One of the first gardens I did outside the family was for the designer Hattie Carnegie. I was 23 then, and I went to her salon, but could not afford any of her dresses myself, though I loved them. Miss Carnegie suggested I do a garden in exchange for a coat and dress, and so I designed and planted a garden for her.
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My dad once said that in criminal law you see terrible people on their best behavior; in family law you see great people on their worst behavior.
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You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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I'm a dad and a husband, and so the things that I love to do are all geared around my family.
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I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.
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Food was always important in my family, but I didn't think of it as a vocation until a later point in life.
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The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.
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'Frozen' definitely isn't about a man, but about the relationship between two sisters. At different times in our lives we find ourselves either more connected to or disconnected from the people in our family, and I think audiences will really be able to relate to that.
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I love spending time with my family and friends during the holidays, and my favorite holiday tradition would be the pozole that my mom makes almost every Christmas. It's the best!
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Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
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I really miss the Australian lifestyle and being around my friends and family.
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I made a big family when I was working at 'Vogue' for ten years, and I'm still friends with a lot of them.
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Today's kitchen is all about a well-planned space that makes cooking a completely interactive experience among family and friends.
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Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.
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I am not a political writer. I agree with Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell, who are social writers. I can't write in that fashion. I am not good enough for that. What I am interested in is family dramas and why we are doing bad things to each other and what our motives are.
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Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
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Tone matters more than words.
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Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.
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The first 'Bad Company' was a kind of reaction to the Vietnam war - or at least a reaction to how Vietnam had entered the cultural life through films and books.
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The reality of her trauma to consciousness so that she could free herself from its intrusions into her everyday life.
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Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.
