Emily Dickinson Quotes
No ladder needs the bird but skies To situate its wings, Nor any leaders grim baton Arraigns it as it sings.
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Sometimes I'll lock myself in a room and dance. I'll turn music on as loud as possible and just get weird!
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As President Obama clearly said just a few months ago, China must play by the international rules, the international trading system from which they've benefited so much.
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You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.
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I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit.
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Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.
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The name ‘London Banker’ had especially a charmed value. He was supposed to represent, and often did represent, a certain union of pecuniary sagacity and educated refinement which was scarcely to be found in any other part of society.
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It is good to be a cynic-it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all. Universal suicide is the most logical thing in the world-we reject it only because of our primitive cowardice and childish fear of the dark. If we were sensible we would seek death-the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.
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Baw! Damme, but I'll fight you both, one after the other!With baskets.
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Donald Evans is a favorite person of mine. His worth ethic, his attitude and his dedication really set him apart.
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One of the most, in a weird way, encouraging things a director can say to an actor - I know this as an actor - is when you ask them a question, they say, I don't know - 'cause it means there's some space there for you to find out. And it means that there's going to be a process.
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That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.
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The interesting thing for me is that everybody felt that I was really wild when i was unbalanced and desperate to communicate something and didn't have a sense of purpose. But I've never been so crazy and wild as I am with my son or as I am now.
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There's a sort of wooly headed duckiness about you. If I wasn't so crazy about Marmaduke, I could really marry you Bertie.
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In the morning you were never violently sorry-- you made no resolutions, but if you had overdone it and your heart was slightly out of order, you went on the wagon for a few days without saying anything about it, and waited until an accumulation of nervous boredom projected you into another party.
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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.
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He began to realize that you cannot even fight happily with creatures that stand upon a different mental basis to yourself.
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Building a nation calls us to recognize that we must constantly relate to others, rejecting a mindset of hostility in order to adopt one of reciprocal subsidiarity, in a constant effort to do our best. I am confident that we can do this.
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I think when you are young, you are hoping that this person will be the right one. The one you are going to be in love with forever, but sometimes you want that so much, you create something that isn't really there.
