Victoria Secunda Quotes
At the same time, the daughters, in adulthood, must also make the effort to really know their mothers—which many daughters do not—in order to understand what forces shaped those mothers. These daughters need to discover what torment may have unwittingly informed their mothers’ parental choices, and to see their mothers as composites of strengths and weaknesses, rather than as all good or all bad.
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I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.
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Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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I'm a big sports fan - mainly basketball.
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
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My greatest regret is selling my company.
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much.
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Father's Day each year makes me grateful for what my father did for me. This has little to do with our relationship, and much to do with what he taught me.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.
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Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.
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To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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I'm a darned good listener.
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God insists that we ask, not because He needs to know our situation, but because we need the spiritual discipline of asking.
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The 'Terror' of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.
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The pursuit of curiosity about the basic facts of nature has proven, with few exceptions throughout the history of medical science, to be the route by which the successful drugs and devices of modern medicine were discovered.
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People make mistakes - they say things they shouldn't have or didn't necessarily mean. But I strongly believe in consequences. If there are none, someone might feel like they've gotten away with something, or that what they said couldn't have been that bad.
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Time is relative; its only worth depends upon what we do as it is passing.
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At the same time, the daughters, in adulthood, must also make the effort to really know their mothers—which many daughters do not—in order to understand what forces shaped those mothers. These daughters need to discover what torment may have unwittingly informed their mothers’ parental choices, and to see their mothers as composites of strengths and weaknesses, rather than as all good or all bad.
