Freya Stark Quotes
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I really don't care if people know who I am or what's said about me.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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It's always interesting about God because it's like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.
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I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
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Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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I love David's attitude in the Bible. He wasn't afraid to go against the trends. He wasn't going to be defined by the opinions of others.
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges - but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration.
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The money I earn from films means I can help the people I want to help - you can do a lot of good if you want to.
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I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
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The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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The raising to life of all animate beings at the resurrection of the dead can be no more difficult for Divine Power than restoring to life a fly in the spring, heavy with the death-stained sleep of winter.
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That's why I think the 'Scarpetta' series has worked so well because people like spending time with this character.
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The best leaders over the long term are those who have a sound home life.
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We must get rid of fossil fuels by developing injection systems for automobiles, which can run on bio-fuel.
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There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers in vain.
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You who choose to lead must follow. But if you fall, you fall alone.
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I never wanted to look back on my career and be embarrassed about work that I chose to do.
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Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.
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Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?” "...I think the answer is that a circle has no beginning." "Well reasoned.
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It is only the unexpected that ever makes a customs officer think.
