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 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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The men were all scumbags, but the whole point of the film is to show the development of that. Each guy is going in there to have a good time. By and large, these men are career men, family men, and you just see the deterioration of them.
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If they had rankings in baseball, maybe I would have been able to do the math and figure out my chances of being a professional baseball player versus a tennis player. But that was the decision-maker for me, I just thought I was better in tennis.
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If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.
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No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, cloath and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed, and lodged.
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I first saw the ocean as a kid. We would drive from Arizona in the summer and arrive as the sun was starting to come down over the hill near Laguna in southern California. We would always sing a song, and it was a big joyous family moment when we came over the hill.
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I don't really listen to music. I don't. I watch television.
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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.
