Deborah Harkness Quotes
The plain truth is that the period I study is the 16th century, and they were absolutely obsessed with witches and spiritual beings.
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.
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The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.
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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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Robots are good at things that are structured.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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Socialism requires that government becomes your god.
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Christ's strength is manifest in our weakness, so if we had everything together there would be no need for Him.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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I take my work seriously.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It's very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique.
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The United Nations Children's Fund reports that more than 18 million children worldwide have lost both parents to the ravages of AIDS, starvation, war or natural disasters.
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After the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanians were crazed with happiness. People who never met each other before hugged each other in the streets - convinced that tomorrow things would look different. Then came the many disappointments.
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South Africa is labouring to find its revolutionary path; the colours of the Rainbow Nation have difficulty blending together; the wealthy elites (white, black or Indian) profit from de facto segregation.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
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After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.
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Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
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Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.
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Goodbye 2010. If you were a fish, I'd throw you back.
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God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one; but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.
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Of what use is genius, if the organ is too convex or too concave and cannot find a focal distance within the actual horizon of human life?
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The plain truth is that the period I study is the 16th century, and they were absolutely obsessed with witches and spiritual beings.
