Dorothy Dunnett Quotes
Verily, God hath eighteen thousand worlds; and verily, your world is one of them, and this its bright axle-tree.
Quotes to Explore
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Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of hip-hop, I'm hearing it all from another borough in Brooklyn.
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records.
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After five years in Ferrari, being second all the time, I think it was enough for me.
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People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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I come from a background of hiding everything behind a computer.
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I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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I have used Proactiv, and I use X Out, and they are the only things that work for me.
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Health and well-being, as well as how we can live in harmony with our planet, is something I'm passionate about.
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I've had such an odd career.
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I enjoy acting, and I appreciate people who have passion about what they're doing and have a vision about the film they're trying to make.
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They put it on the page because it sounded good or it looked good or they read it in a book somewhere that this is how you structure a script or something, and they just don't get it. It's surprising.
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I respect hippos. They just look the way they do; they can't do anything about it, but they don't seem bothered.
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It seems like women are always told, 'It is not your time.'
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For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war,Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar.
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The formula for the parameters of a unilateral solution are: To maximize the number of Jews; to minimize the number of Palestinians; not to withdraw to the 1967 border and not to divide Jerusalem.
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Women need to be empowered to shape their own livelihoods and become CEOs of their own lives. They must be allowed to take control of important life decisions that are so often decided by others.
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
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Verily, God hath eighteen thousand worlds; and verily, your world is one of them, and this its bright axle-tree.
