Ellen Key Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.
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My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used to play the piano, badly, and cello. My brother Peter played violin.
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I love the game so much. I've been penalized. I've been fined. I have some regrets in my career. But for those four hours on Sunday, you can be free and just let it all go. Retiring had nothing to do with football; it had to do with my family.
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I was raised Catholic, but the devil was never with a pitchfork.
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Like many other kids, I liked watching anime.
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My dad was in the Army, so what was happening internationally and nationally was always important to my family.
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Variety improves the things that we do too often, but it rules the things that we don't do often enough.
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I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.
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Music is everywhere and in everything! I draw my inspiration from the day to day activities of my life!
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One of the things that's frustrated me as a deep-sea explorer is how many animals there probably are in the ocean that we know nothing about because of the way we explore the ocean.
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The whole European Federal plan is ridiculous. We are patriotic. The single currency is an outrage. We want the Queen's head - or the King's head, if we have a king - on our own coins.
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My husband and I get along great. We're both introverts, and it's hard to make new friends.
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I have a very successful father-in-law and family with very different political views.
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'Love Letter' is a concept album, and whenever I do a concept album - and I love doing concept albums more than any other kind of album - it allows me to get dressed, in a way, musically.
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I was the rebel in our family and a child of the eighties. That meant going to the mall.
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I used to think 'King Lear' was an analysis of insanity, but I don't really think it is. When Lear is supposed to be at his most insane, he is actually understanding the world for the first time.
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We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.
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Whatever you are, be a good one.
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Why is there space rather than no space? Why is space three-dimensional? Why is space big? We have a lot of room to move around in. How come it's not tiny? We have no consensus about these things. We're still exploring them.
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I got a family I got to answer to. I got kids my older parents and my preachers and everybody.
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Sexiness is in what you cover, not what you show. When you are covered, you leave a lot to people's imagination. People see the mystery in my eyes and find it sexy.
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I probably only cried five or six times in my life and I think four of those times was from my daddy kicking my butt.
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What we want to see is the development of human rights and greater democracy, not just because it is our system but because we think that's the best way that economic and political development go hand in hand.
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Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.
