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.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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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.
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I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.
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I'm process-orientated. Awards, by their nature, are results-orientated.
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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.
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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.
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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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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.
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There is no such thing as women's intuition. You all just have crap poker faces.
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You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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I'm tired now of the elections.
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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.
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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.
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What would be a road hazard anywhere else, in the Third World is probably the road.
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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
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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.
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The things I want to express are so beautiful and pure.
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Lindsey Graham is now the seventh Republican running for president. If you're keeping score, that's basically one Republican candidate for every two Republican voters.
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Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading; to read faithfully, and with your best attention, all kinds of things which you have a real interest in,--a real, not an imaginary,--and which you find to be really fit for what you are engaged in.
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I'd never say I'll never have a facelift, but I'm way too scared of looking like a different person. I have no philosophical or political position on plastic surgery; I just don't want to look crazy. And I don't like not being able to tell how old someone is: It's creepy.
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Since we launched the original 'Pop Idol' in England, I've remained close with Simon Fuller. Working as executive producer on 'American idol' for its first seven years not only was an inspirational journey into the heart of American pop culture, it opened my eyes to the untapped potential of the incredibly dynamic young people in this world.
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I learned that you can't truly own anything, that true ownership comes only in the moment of giving.
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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.
