Emma Orczy Quotes
I take it, sir, that you do not approve of our new society." "Approval, sir, in my opinion, demands the attainment of perfection. And in that sense, you rather overrate the charms of your society. I'faith, for one thing, it does seem monstrous ill-dressed for any society, even a new one.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
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Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
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I like to smile. I smile even when I'm nervous since it calms me down and shows my friendliness.
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I would love to have my own fashion line because I love sketching.
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My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.
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Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.
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Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough.
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I think less than people think I do about politics. I care about writing.
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The more people learn about the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, the worse it looks.
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You can tell when someone is driven by labels. If something is couture, they think it's important and wear it and sometimes make a terrible fashion mistake. People are shocked that I know so little about designers.
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I personally have a pretty open philosophy about trying to talk to the press, and so does Dan Bartlett.
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You can't work in a steel mill and think small. Giant converters hundreds of feet high. Every night, the sky looked enormous. It was a torrent of flames - of fire. The place that Pittsburgh used to be had such scale.
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I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.
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As you get older, the summer is less of a vacation and more of a training period by yourself away from the team. It's exciting for me. I felt like I've been really getting better as far as my conditioning every single season as I get older.
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Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.
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There's always a special feeling I have while writing any song.
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For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.
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Different people's houses smell like different weird things. God forbid someone should come and nail down what my house smells like. It'd probably be a litter box... sweaty socks... and burnt bacon. That probably is what it smells like.
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I don't really know that much about love, it turns out.
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The vast majority of small business owners want nothing to do with figuring out a website. They are neck-deep in their business trying to keep it going.
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Music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by few, and that it alone among all the languages unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable - these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods.
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Every man has a right to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
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I take it, sir, that you do not approve of our new society." "Approval, sir, in my opinion, demands the attainment of perfection. And in that sense, you rather overrate the charms of your society. I'faith, for one thing, it does seem monstrous ill-dressed for any society, even a new one.
