Mary Shelley Quotes
My person was hideous and my stature gigantic. What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination? These questions continually recurred, but I was unable to solve them.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
Barbara Amiel
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
Samuel Johnson
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My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.
Jack Bowman
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I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.
Flume
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I'm process-orientated. Awards, by their nature, are results-orientated.
Barry Jenkins
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My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.
Natan Sharansky
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
Sam Altman
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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
H. G. Wells
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I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.
Oprah Winfrey
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There is no such thing as women's intuition. You all just have crap poker faces.
Rachel Shelley
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You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
Barbara Bush
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I'm tired now of the elections.
Barbara Bush
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I'm not the type that's going to sit and preach to people if they don't need it just because I've been around the block a few times.
Queen Latifah
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O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.
Saint Augustine
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What would be a road hazard anywhere else, in the Third World is probably the road.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Much of the prejudice against Islam in the West stems from a lack of understanding of the true nature of Islam as a religion professed by 1.4 billion people in the world.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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Voyaging into the night, one knows exactly where, on a known vessel, an absolute harmony with the elements of the unreal. 1959, reacting on a remark of Robert Motherwell
Ad Reinhardt
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'I was ordained,' said the preacher. 'No one ordains artists. They ordain themselves.'Just as Taleswapper had expected. The preacher retreated to authority as soon as he feared his ideas could not stand on their own merit. Reasonable argument was impossible when authority became the arbiter.
Orson Scott Card
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When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop.
Joe Slovo
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Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck.
Allan Sherman
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Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
Edgard Varese
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I would be lying if I said Starz doesn't have a reputation.
Sam Heughan
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My person was hideous and my stature gigantic. What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination? These questions continually recurred, but I was unable to solve them.
Mary Shelley