Freya Stark Quotes

If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road.

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• Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.

  

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• The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.

  

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• Anyone who knows me knows what I'm about - how much I'm into empowerment, equal rights and everyone just loving themselves.

  

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• No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.

  

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• I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.

  

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• Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.

  

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• If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.

  

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• My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can relate to. Whether it's a whole record or just one song for someone, I hope it can do that for them. Knowing that I have the ability to do that is inspiring to me.

  

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• Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.

  

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• The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.

  

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• If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.

  

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• When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.

  

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• It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.

  

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• I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!

  

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• Anyone who knows me well will tell you that arrogance is one of my flaws.

  

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• And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.

  

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• Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We're very different. I wouldn't make that comparison at all, and I don't mean to disrespect Madonna: she's a nice lady, and she's had a fantastic, huge career - biggest pop star of all time.

  

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• But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake.

  

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• I believe in workers' rights when people are doing a good job.

  

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• The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man - that is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sense - has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading.

  

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• It's not important, the relationship between the coaches.

  

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• Yoga is ideal for calming the mind and harmonizing with nature. Plus, since this meditation consists of listening to what's taking place in the instant, it brings the mind into the present, where the body resides, producing unification of mind and body.

  

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• If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road.

  

  Freya Stark
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Single