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 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 want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.
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It makes no sense to bad mouth people, but I think Jean-Luc Godard is astonishing as a survivalist, somebody who can do a film that is as extraordinary as Goodbye to Language.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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It's been tough for me being away from the game.
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The Creeper in the 'Katana' series is the same Creeper that will be in 'Villains Month.'
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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.
