Mary Astell Quotes
Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.
Quotes to Explore
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.
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When you cease to dream you cease to live.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents.
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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I've had horrible days where you wake up with a zit, and you have to film, and it's terrible.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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The truth is I love musical theater and always have.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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Some people look gender non-conforming because they want to look that way - they don't want to conform to society's expectations.
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Can't step from one movie set to the next. Only Samuel L. Jackson can do that. All us mere mortals can't do that!
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For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
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She does not know where any tale waits before it's told. (No more do I.) But forty thieves sounds good, so forty thieves it is. She prays she has bought another clutch of days. We save our lives in such unlikely ways.
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I love to reread, even more than I like to read, so keeping a hold of books that I adore is very important, although they flee from me - they are always fleeing.
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But I ask you, those of you who are with us all day, not to stress yourselves out because of us. When you do this, it feels as if you're denying any value at all that our lives may have--and that saps the spirit we need to soldier on. The hardest ordeal for us is the idea that we are causing grief for other people. We can put up with our own hardships okay, but the thought that our lives are the source of other people's unhappiness, that's plain unbearable.
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Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.
