Ellen Key Quotes
Great love, like great genius, can never be a duty: both are life's gracious gifts to its elect.
Quotes to Explore
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Using phrases or mantras to encourage and comfort myself has been a powerful practice for me. For years, I would say to myself 'Remember the purple sky' when I was feeling anxious, which to me meant remember a sense of internal spaciousness and kindness toward myself.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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I would like to direct.
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Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
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No one pays me to be nice.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly is going to draw the women. Most of the songs I'm singing are catering to women anyway.
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There will not be a billion-shekel cut to education on my watch.
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For years, I have repeatedly said that Maryland taxpayers were being overtaxed and overcharged.
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There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty and triumph, the thing about which she was unquestionably the proudest and most excited was that she and her family did their part during the war.
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I'm not superstitious.
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I am not afraid to keep on living. I am not afraid to walk this world alone. Honey if you stay you'll be forgiven, nothing you can say will set me going home.
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Few people realize what a handicap it is to be what people call a beautiful woman. I'm glad, of course, that I don't look like an unmade bed, but too often, I'm just taken at face value. And there aren't many men who believe a beautiful woman can have any brains.
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I'm not gonna front and act like your boyfriend. I'm out here, you know what I'm saying?
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Then I turned to him commanding That he go the way he came, whence he came. But he answered me in sorrow, "May the Past not seek to borrow From the Present without blame - Just one memory from its store, Ere it goes to come no more, Back the pathway that it came, whence it came?"
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Great love, like great genius, can never be a duty: both are life's gracious gifts to its elect.
