Emily Dickinson Quotes

Assent - and you are sane - Demur - and you're straightaway dangerous - and handled with a chain.

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• There's an assault on human sexuality, as Judge Scalia said, they've taken sides in the culture war and on top of that if we have a democracy, the democratic processes should be that we can elect representatives who will share our point of view and vote those things into law.

  

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• While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.

  

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• I chose the Xperia based on its functions. Apart from using the phone to communicate, I also use it to take pictures. The image quality with this cell phone is great.

  

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• To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.

  

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• We get to a point where we're like, you know what, one day we're just not gonna be here anymore, so I'm going to enjoy every second of it.

  

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• I just feed off the energy of the audience.

  

  Larry David
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• A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman.

  

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• I am always hearing from Israelis, 'Oh, CNN is anti-Israel,' or 'BBC is against us.' But no, they are reporting facts.

  

  Zubin Mehta
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• When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
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• When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again.

  

  Taylor Hackford
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• I've enjoyed training again, I've enjoyed pushing myself in the pool and I'll keep on swimming until I feel I cannot get any more out of myself.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • Myself
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• The West should be tougher on Pakistan. It is trying to play both ends against the middle - to look like the friend of the revolutionaries on the one hand and a friend of the West in the fight against terrorism. It can't be both things.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Trying
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• You step over the threshold of your parents' home, and you're instantly transported back to your childhood. It's like time travel. You revert at once to a place of arrested development.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Time
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• It's a funny song and a funny video about a very serious topic. A lot of women die at the hands of their husbands.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Women
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• YOUR WORD IS YOUR WAND. THE WORDS YOU SPEAK CREATE YOUR OWN DESTINY

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
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• Hey, Mikey? You get her hurt and I'll end you." "You let anything happen to Eve and I'll do the same," Michael said. He'd just finished kissing Eve, too. "While you're at it, don't get yourself killed, either, bro." "Ditto. And don't kiss me.

  

  Rachel Caine
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• A thing worth learning is worth learning well.

  

  Patrick Ness
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• I care deeply about opportunity and fairness, because I grew up really poor.

  

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• Failures can be God's little whispers (or) a full earthquake in our lives because we didn't listen to the whispers

  

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• The difference between a gourmet and a gourmand we take to be this: a gourmet is he who selects, for his nice and learned delectation, the most choice delicacies, prepared in the most scientific manner; whereas the gourmand bears a closer analogy to that class of great eaters ill-naturedly (we dare say) denominated, or classed with, aldermen.

  

  Abraham Hayward
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• Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.

  

  Rachel Kushner
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• And none of these people, not one of them, had loved any of the others well enough. Failures, he thought, we're all failures... He wanted his love to be the wine and bread, and the blood and flesh. He reached for her, a dangerous stranger in a city of dangerous strangers, but she turned away from him and walked unsteadily through the crowd. How many loveless people walk among the barely loved?

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • People
  • Love
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• Assent - and you are sane - Demur - and you're straightaway dangerous - and handled with a chain.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Dangerous
  • Chain
  • Assent