Mary Astell Quotes
We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
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God is everywhere.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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I was getting a little bored with my hair. It's kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of the past, moving forward. It's amazing what a reaction you get when you cut your hair.
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The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.
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Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.
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It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
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I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.
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People in Tulsa are totally friendly; the crowds are very nice.
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I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.
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You're allowed to have gravitas when you've got the wrinkles to prove it, but not when you're attractive and younger - or, at least, you have to fight really hard to prove you're capable of productive thought.
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I believe in God, but I don't know what it is - if it's a he, she, a he-she, or anything. Who knows what it is. All I know is that I feel like there's something else there.
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Almost everybody's happy to be a fool for love.
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Can we then hold the poverty-in-wealth of the money-grubbing usurers to be of any account? They may seem to be kings with purses full of gold, but they never even in their dreams have had a glimpse of the wealth that has eyes to see.
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We need less theoretical debate and more practical application and acknowledgment of what Europe can and does do so that it is brought home to people in a relevant way.
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We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may.
