Maeve Binchy Quotes
I have been lucky enough to travel a lot, meet great people in many lands. I have liked almost everyone I met along the way.
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For his own vindictive purposes, Jeffrey Sterling carelessly disclosed extremely valuable, highly classified information that he had taken an oath to keep secret.
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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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I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.
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Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
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I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.
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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
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It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
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I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground.
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Men create the gods in their own image.
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Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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I've seen makeup destroy people and make them look bad if it's badly done.
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The world is a sphere, there is no East or West.
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If there is a sort of national American emotion I would call it optimism. If there is an English one I would call it embarrassment - not even pessimism - just sheer shame, embarrassment and confusion.
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Throughout the day, I'll make a lot of green smoothies or salads, and then when I travel, I try my hardest to just keep up the regime. It's not always easy, but I do my best.
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She too was standing in the lamp’s raw light. Her cheeks looked hollow, her lips too red, too bold.
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I have been lucky enough to travel a lot, meet great people in many lands. I have liked almost everyone I met along the way.
