Ellen Key Quotes
On the question of marriage, as in all other respects, Lutheranism is a compromise, a bridge between two logical views of the universe: the Catholic-Christian and the Individualistic Monist. And bridges are made to go over, not to stand upon.
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In my life, I wanted to feel tall. I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to be tall as the Sears Tower. I wanted to be on top of the Sears Tower. I wanted to be as strong as the Sears Tower feels.
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You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?
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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
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The liberals will surely argue that every person has the right to fall in love with no regard to religion, creed or gender, but I am not that liberal.
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When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
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There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.
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I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.
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You have to know the forces that are against you and that are trying to break you down. We talk about the problems facing the black community: the decimation of the black family; the mass incarceration of the black man; we're talking about the brutality against black people from the police. The educational system.
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I wasn't happy with my performance at the World Championships in Daegu. I had an unbelievable race in the heats, but misjudged the semi and finished last.
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In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
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I'd like to do a comedy, actually. I think it would be great to do a sitcom or something like that. I'm pretty much open to anything.
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The secret is keeping busy, and loving what you do.
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I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.
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A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
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Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage.
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'There's nothing wrong with you. There's a lot wrong with the world you live in.'
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On the question of marriage, as in all other respects, Lutheranism is a compromise, a bridge between two logical views of the universe: the Catholic-Christian and the Individualistic Monist. And bridges are made to go over, not to stand upon.
