Emma Orczy Quotes
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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I have such a profound respect for what they do day in and day out. This USO tour is especially meaningful because of the friends I have met and I am honored to be apart of it.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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You'd be surprised how addicting high self-esteem is.
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Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive.
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A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.
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Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.
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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
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Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
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I love Indian food, and my favourite dish is dal rice.
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I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment.
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He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
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In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
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God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
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You have a specific, defined audience-at MTV, they assume the audience to the news is 15 to 30 years old and they do a lot of research about the things they're interested in.
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Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.
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When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.
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My stepfather had a connection with The Second City and told me I should go there. I woke up in a cold sweat one night and said, 'I'm moving to Chicago.' That's how I went to Second City.
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Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.
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I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in.
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I think if you're forthright and answer a lot of questions, sometimes you'll get people who won't let you answer the questions, and that makes for a difficult answer.
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Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.
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The weariest night, the longest day, sooner or later must perforce come to an end.
