Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes
People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.
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I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.
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It was a labor of love and they did really well.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.
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Part of the reason for moving to New York was the sense that it just didn't matter how much work I did in England, I continued to be seen simply as a Redgrave. I did feel I could be who I am in New York and we all like to feel appreciated.
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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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I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a bookseller and then as a sales rep and publicist and then various editorial jobs until I ended up with HarperCollins in Australia.
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I'm a voice for children's books and children's reading.
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I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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I came from Canada, where it's freezing cold for seven months out of the year.
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The truth of the matter is one knows what it's like being the president. Not I, nor any president to come hence. This is because life, thankfully, offers deeper quandaries. While in office, I would often wake up in a daze, wondering how I could wiggle my toes without even thinking it so, or why hair grows only on certain places and not our entire bodies, or why we aren't completely bald, or why we must close our eyes and sleep every night, or any of the millions of particulars of daily existence, let alone that I was elected the leader of an entire nation.
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To oppose something is to maintain it.
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Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.
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Rouelle on the possibility of transmuting one element to another said, Ordinary chemists doubt the truth of the principles of this science, but they cannot judge in a matter entirely unknown to them. Although I do not wish to cast doubt on the testim.
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I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.
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People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.
