Mary Astell Quotes
If none were to Marry, but Men of strict Vertue and Honour, I doubt the World would be but thinly peopled.
Quotes to Explore
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
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My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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I was a kid who had asthma and bifocals and wore sweater vests.
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It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
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I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
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I still have a young attitude.
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As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don't fight the trend.
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We interpret our agreement with the IMF - our participation in the IMF's system of cooperation - as a borrowing agreement. The IMF sees it as an economic policy agreement. This is not in our interest.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.
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The guys in my band are good friends on and off the stage. The band members that I have now is probably the best band that I have ever had.
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It's better to be skinny than to be fat.
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Jasmine is just the most delicate and beautiful scent.
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I still have a lot of my friends from high school. You just know who is there for you for real, and who is trying to get something out of you.
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In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.
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When something possesses me, I go ahead and do it.
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When I started doing standup when I was 17, I was talking about being Indian and specifically ethnic jokes. Straightforward stuff that was fairly ignorant that I knew would get the laugh. It wasn't flipping stereotypes; it was using them.
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When you get to a certain age in society, they want to dictate to you when you should pack it in and that you should mentally grab a cane, a box of Depends, Geritol, listen to the oldies, and not eat spicy food after 9 o'clock.
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It is difficult for someone raised in my world to learn to express emotion. We are taught early to hide our feelings publicly.
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There has been hardly a single year since 1917, and in a certain sense since 1905, without a revolution somewhere in the world in which the workers participated in a rather important way.
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If none were to Marry, but Men of strict Vertue and Honour, I doubt the World would be but thinly peopled.
