Ellen Key Quotes
The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.
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As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.
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The hypothesis that economic organization is the resultant of a series of historic accidents is intructive in that many organizational innovations appear to be the result of trial and error.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.
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I was tested against the best.
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Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
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I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.
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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
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I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
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Don't wallow in brainstorming. Time spent fiddling with a business plan or filling up whiteboards with ideas is time that you could spend actually launching your business and seeing if the idea floats. Launching gives you real, solid feedback, instead of the imaginary 'what if' scenarios dreamed up in a conference room.
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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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In this business you break a leg and 150 other people are out of work while production is shut down. It's not like you were an accountant and could still work with your leg in a cast.
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Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
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Support women directors. When a play opens, and it's by a woman, put your money down.
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It's so hard for women to be happy for one another, like genuinely happy. Once you find that, you know you've found true SELF happiness.
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Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.
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The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.
