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.
Edmund Burke
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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.
Dana Goodyear
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No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.
Karl Kraus
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
Oksana Baiul
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
Eddie Murphy
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
Finley Peter Dunne
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
Farrah Fawcett
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God is everywhere.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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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?
Famke Janssen
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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.
Barbara Kruger
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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.
Pamela Anderson
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The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.
Malcolm Gladwell
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Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.
Carlos Ghosn
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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.
Edna Ferber
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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.
Iris Murdoch
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I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.
Manny Pacquiao
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People in Tulsa are totally friendly; the crowds are very nice.
Yakov Smirnoff
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I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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The game doesn't change.
Pedro Martinez
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I am genuinely not an over-the-top kind of person about politics or anything else.
Charles Kennedy
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I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really.
Christine Keeler
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A tiny part of my heart is so happy to see him safe and laughing, but the other part is a black pit that threatens to suck all of me into it. He is happy without me. He is laughing without me. But what about me?
Carrie Jones
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You have to know what you want out of your work or out of your life.
Katharine Ross
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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.
Mary Astell