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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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
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Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.
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'You're still the same girl. What people do doesn't change their nature.'She shook her head.… 'What they do is their nature,' she said.
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Hollywood is what I do. It's not who I am.
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Good acting comes from finding the essence of a character.
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Science gains from it [the pendulum] more than one can expect. With its huge dimensions, the apparatus presents qualities that one would try in vain to communicate by constructing it on a small [scale], no matter how carefully. Already the regularity of its motion promises the most conclusive results. One collects numbers that, compared with the predictions of theory, permit one to appreciate how far the true pendulum approximates or differs from the abstract system called 'the simple pendulum'.
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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.
