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 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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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've been training quite hard.
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My grandmother knitted me a crochet top when I was 15. I still fit into it and will never give it away.
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The best thing to spend on your children is your time.
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Shackle your mind when you bend on the cross,When ignorance reigns life is lost.
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I always think in life passion supersedes everything.
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I'm afraid I am tidy, and I have to be because the office is open plan and my glass office door is literally always open.
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You see any movie, and it's just a feat of human strength and perseverance. It is a brutally challenging business.
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Great love, like great genius, can never be a duty: both are life's gracious gifts to its elect.
