Mary Astell Quotes
None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue.
Quotes to Explore
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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
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You know who we hear about all the rappers from? The bus drivers.
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When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured... At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness.
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'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.
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A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!
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I saw 'The Artist.' It's really beautiful and it's all done to the letter with all the silent film techniques. The costumes were amazing and the dog is so good.
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Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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Like, I'll wear a bright sweater with pants that are a more classic color.
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Cue actor platitude, but I've been very fortunate and worked pretty consistently and have felt rather annoyingly grateful that I got to do what I got to do.
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I was supremely fortunate to do several projects that I'm really excited about. So within all that, there's a lot going on this year. I'm excited about 2016.
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The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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Negroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home.
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Whoever is for higher taxes, feel free to pay higher taxes.
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I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot.
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Upon this the Hungarian ministers resigned, but the names submitted by the president of the council, at the demand of the king, were not approved of for successors.
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Words are so important to us, so vital to our beings, that we sometimes take this gift of ours for granted. We shouldn’t—words are too powerful to take for granted.
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A lot of people have told me, you know, that what I've written about, they identify with strongly.
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Information is antifragile; it feeds more on attempts to harm it than it does on efforts to promote it.
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None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue.
