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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Words are but the signs of ideas.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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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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I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.
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It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.
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This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
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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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My mother taught me how to love.
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If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before.
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It really depends, but, generally speaking, just because of the mechanics of it, voice-over is easier because there is no hair, no makeup, no wardrobe, no fittings, no line memorizing. You don't have to me woken up in Russia at 6 in the morning and go film a scene. It's just easier on the body, the family life to do voice-overs.
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The true strength of rulers and empires lies not in armies or emotions, but in the belief of men that they are inflexibly open and truthful and legal. As soon as a government departs from that standard it ceases to be anything more than 'the gang in possession,' and its days are numbered.
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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.
