Mary Astell Quotes
Thus, whether it be wit or beauty that a man’s in love with, there are no great hopes of a lasting happiness; beauty, with all the helps of arts, is of no long date; the more it is , the sooner it decays; and he, who only or chiefly chose for beauty, will in a little time find the same reason for another choice.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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Certainly, if we had not invaded Iraq on intelligence that was clearly manipulated and cherry picked, we would be in a different position today.
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Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
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We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.
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Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.
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I worked with young directors all my life, only young directors.
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There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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If you go to a paintball subreddit, paintball companies can advertise to you.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
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I feel very keenly the eyes of the foreign media on our country. And I think a lot of Japanese people feel that things are not working the way they should. When the time comes, I will put myself forward.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage ground.
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I have a policy that I get to spend as much on myself as I give away.
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The movie I worked on that had the most problems and interference came from the smallest indie movie I've ever done. I couldn't believe what the director had to go through; he was destroyed.
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A lot of the metal bands that were around when Metallica put out 'The Black Album,' now they're playing clubs, and Metallica is playing stadiums.
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There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets.
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I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done.
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Thus, whether it be wit or beauty that a man’s in love with, there are no great hopes of a lasting happiness; beauty, with all the helps of arts, is of no long date; the more it is , the sooner it decays; and he, who only or chiefly chose for beauty, will in a little time find the same reason for another choice.
