Freya Stark Quotes
Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter.
Quotes to Explore
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.
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If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.
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Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
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I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.
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Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.
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One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
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I want to live my life naked, with all my little naked kids naked in the garden.
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What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.
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The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives.
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If we look at the fact that record covers are essentially advertisements for the music, we acknowledge a function and purpose to draw in the prospective buyer.
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My mom told me if I ever got a tattoo, she was going to take it off with a potato peeler.
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Cancer is a scary thing and you have to deal with it seriously.
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Do I think Vince McMahon was looking at my matches in Japan going, 'We need him?' No. He wasn't. He's too busy. There's no way. But somebody may have been looking and going, 'All right, I like this guy. Let's give him a shot.'
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I always follow the same idea: Start small and disrupt to create something big.
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I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.
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If someone can't behave with their colleagues and can't be part of the culture, it doesn't matter how good they are at what they do; they have to be asked to leave.
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That's one of the good things about being recognisable - if you need a quick escape, the cabbies will take care of you.
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I wear weird things sometimes. I like to drink coffee. Neither of those things have anything to do with who I am.
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If woman alone had suffered under these mistaken traditions [of women's subordination], if she could have borne the evil by herself, it would have been less pitiful, but her brother man, in the laws he created and ignorantly worshipped, has suffered with her. He has lost her highest help; he has crippled the intelligence he needed; he has belittled the very source of his own being and dwarfed the image of his Maker.
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Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter.
