Karen Blixen Quotes
Human talk is a centrifugal function, ever in flight outwards from what is on the talker's mind.
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.
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Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here in this group, and we're not gonna call you.'
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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Research confirms that great teachers change lives. Students with one highly effective elementary school teacher are more likely to go to college, less likely to become pregnant as teens, and earn tens of thousands more over their lifetimes.
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To read too many books is harmful.
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I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.
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Each multiplex has screens allocated to each studio. The screens need filling. Studios have to create product to fill their screen, and the amount of good product is limited.
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So, I have my own horse and two ponies. I grew up around horses, and that really is my passion.
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Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.
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I'm very, very involved in charities involving youth.
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Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
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My mom is, for 89 years old, is extraordinarily open-minded.
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The people we grew up watching and listening to - Outkast, Gucci Mane, Hot Boys, Lil Wayne, Master P - all that type of stuff, we took those styles and made it our own.
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There is enough of free-of-charge software available on the Net to ease building internet websites and contact pages, as well as implement email marketing campaigns.
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Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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What I wish more than anything is that I could start getting press about my work as an actor. That is what I do. I'm not a criminal.
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The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.
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I wouldn't mind being a bit taller.
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Mark what 'tis his mind aims at in the question, and not what words he expresses it in: and when you have informed and satisfied him in that, you shall see how his thoughts will enlarge themselves, and how by fit answers he may be led on farther than perhaps you could have imagine. For knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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Human talk is a centrifugal function, ever in flight outwards from what is on the talker's mind.
