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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You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
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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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We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.
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A great Empire, like a great Cake, is most easily diminished at the Edges.
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The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. I'm just trying to think about the future and not be sad.
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I tend to over-intellectualize things, to come at them from a structural point.
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Great love, like great genius, can never be a duty: both are life's gracious gifts to its elect.
