Emily Bronte Quotes
Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.
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The mirror to the beautiful is beautiful.
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The first 10 years of my life, I lived as 'Matangi.' When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was terrible because I would put my hand up to answer things, and no one would choose me because they couldn't say my name. My auntie came from Europe to visit us, and she was like, 'Just call yourself something else.'
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The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
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You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you.
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
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Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.
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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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My father was born in Newark, New Jersey, and my mother was born in Philadelphia. They both went to Stanford for grad school and met there.
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I sleep a lot on Sunday. It's really great.
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The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.
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I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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Clothes are not frippery. Properly done, they can be an art form.
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I demand a lot from myself and reflect this attitude upon others: I consider it to be an important quality for a leader. I also think it is impossible to achieve success without persistence.
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In the Jewish tradition, there is at the same time Jerusalem in the heavens and Jerusalem on the ground. Jerusalem is a living city, but also the heart, the soul of the Jewish people and the state of Israel.
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What makes maftoul worth celebrating is that it's so easy and forgiving to cook.
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Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.
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My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
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If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well.
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Mine enemy is growing old,- I have at last revenge. The palate of the hate departs; If any would avenge,-Let him be quick, the viand flits, It is a faded meat. Anger as soon as fed is dead; ’T is starving makes it fat.
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If a woman is poorly dressed, you notice her dress. If a woman is impeccably dressed, you notice the woman.
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Fantasy was something I'd read as a child. And, in fact, my teachers despaired a little bit because I refused to give up Enid Blyton. Then I walked through the wardrobe with C. S. Lewis, and I don't think I actually have returned fully from the wardrobe. So, fantasy was something that was in my life from quite young.
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Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.
