Freya Stark Quotes
It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing.
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I spend my own money, not other people's money.
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All Democrats are not entitlement people. These are the people who are going to suffer the cost of Obama health care. These are the people who are suffering because there're no jobs.
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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.
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Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pride in when it's finished.
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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My parents live out in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of this peach orchard. It's actually Peach County, one of the largest peach-growing counties in Georgia. It's very rural, and there is nothing much going on, so I guess that's had a big influence on everything as far as just not having much to do.
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If you're paralyzing your face in your 20s and 30s, you're not exercising the muscles that give it strength. My feeling is, laugh, cry, move your face.
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Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government is at the mercy of alienated intellectuals, rambunctious colonels, and rioting students.
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The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.
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My style is very simple, but I love Reese Witherspoon, Kate Hudson and Kate Middleton.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.
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One of the biggest lies in capitalism is that companies like competition. They don't. Nobody likes competition.
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My parents were always Welsh-speaking and very proud of Wales.
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As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong.
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Art and order, the relative that refuse to relate.
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You can’t have a plan for your day, ‘til you have a plan for your life.
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It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing.
