Dorothea Dix Quotes
The duties of a teacher are neither few nor small, but they elevate the mind and give energy to the character.
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The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.
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Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.
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For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.
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Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.
Olusegun Obasanjo
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A woman's health is her capital.
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It's like running a marathon race. We train all hours of the day. When you are taking a bath, you are thinking of the flight.
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We're not going to do a Facebook game aimed at 35-year old women about farming.
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I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do.
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My first job is big sister and I take that very seriously.
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True friends stab you in the front.
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When you get told that you have a disease, it's like: 'Really? Nah, it's all right. I don't believe that. It must be something else, I'm just making an excuse, let me push harder.'
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My conception of my ideal reader has expanded quite a lot as I've matured: Ultimately when I think of my ideal reader, it's someone who's not sitting down with the intention of automatically arguing with the book: somebody who's going to give me enough slack to tell my story.
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For me, it's all about smaller character-driven pieces, about finding a person that I connect with and that I'm interested in bringing to life.
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No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.
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All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
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Sometimes I don't know what takes me over during a game. Sometimes I just feel I have moved to a different place and I can make the pass, score the goal or go past my marker at will.
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El corazón es un infinito de pesadísimas cadenas, encadenando puñaditos de aire.
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I've always said from starting off, 'I don't mind if I'm in a big budget film or a huge play or something small in London playing for 50 people, as long as I'm doing what I love doing for a living.'
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I always knew I wanted to be in films but didn't want anyone to taunt my parents. So I excelled in studies. I was a topper in school and college, so when I decided to become a model, people said, 'Oh your daughter is modeling,' so at least my parents could say, 'Yeah but she also came first in class.'
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Anyone who can be proved to be a seditious person is an outlaw before God and the emperor; and whoever is the first to put him to death does right and well. Therefore let everyone who can, smite, slay and stab, secretly or openly, remembering that nothing can be more poisonous, hurtful, or devilish than a rebel.
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I like perfume and flowers.
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The duties of a teacher are neither few nor small, but they elevate the mind and give energy to the character.
