Freya Stark Quotes
youth looks at its world and age looks through it; youth must get busy on problems whose outlines stand single and strenuous before it, while age can, with luck, achieve a cosmic private harmony unsuited for action as a rule.
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May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
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One of the most interesting things about science fiction and fantasy is the way that the genres can offer different perspectives on matters to do with the body, the mind, medical technology, and the way we live our lives.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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There's so much that I can give as a human being - and I know that.
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Especially in the day and age now with social media and cameraphones and things like that, you always have to act like you're being watched.
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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
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Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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I think that people always just assumed that I was a liberal because I came from Southeast Seattle.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the illusion to keep doing well the things, and the illusion to be in a good position of the ranking and play these kind of matches.
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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Right now the focus is the album that is released and then the tour coming up. After the tour they will let us know about the options and offers that came in for us.
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The image of entrepreneurship as the province of the unprivileged and un-entitled - the Horatio Alger, rags to riches myth - flies in the face of reality.
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I think the fashion industry and the media industry in general have a responsibility to make sure that they celebrate the rich differences in all our backgrounds to make sure we don't fall into the trap of reducing beauty to one specific mold.
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The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.
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I have been very encouraged by President Obama's call to action on climate change both at his Inauguration and in the State of the Union Address. This is a global imperative. I also welcome President Obama's intention to pursue reductions in nuclear arsenals.
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youth looks at its world and age looks through it; youth must get busy on problems whose outlines stand single and strenuous before it, while age can, with luck, achieve a cosmic private harmony unsuited for action as a rule.
