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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America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.
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Imitation is criticism.
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And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so.
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Charles Laughton signed me to my first movie contract at 17. He later asked my parents if he could adopt me.
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I have always been honest about my recollection of events.
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Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.
