Mary Astell Quotes
How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing.
Mary Astell
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Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.
Barry Goldwater
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I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.
Zoe Kravitz
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
M. Night Shyamalan
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
Harlan Ellison
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We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.
Samantha Power
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Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.
Larry Hagman
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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
Edith Sitwell
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
Orson Welles
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There is no better high than discovery.
E. O. Wilson
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It's not part of my ambition to become fabulously rich. My plan was always to make my pictures, and hopefully people would buy them, and then I'd buy a studio, buy a house, help friends out, do bits and bobs - but I've no idea after that.
Gary Hume
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Listen. Are you breathing just a little and calling it a life?
Mary Oliver
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'As I Lay Dying,' I reread that often. That's the first work of Faulkner's that I read that so amazed me and that I responded to emotionally and viscerally. I admired it so much, and I think that's why I keep rereading it.
Jesmyn Ward
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There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.
Gary Busey
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I always said that I'm not the best singer in the world, just the loudest.
Tammy Wynette
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In talking with people, don't begin by discussing the things on which you differ. Begin by emphasizing - and keep on emphasizing - the things on which you agree. Keep emphasizing, if possible, that you are both striving for the same end and that your only difference is one of method and not of purpose.
Dale Carnegie
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How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing.
Mary Astell
