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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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.
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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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Blessed are the joymakers.
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As I got older, I'd say probably when I got to, like, seventh or eighth grade, I was living in Atlanta, Georgia at the time, and I went for an open call for an agent, a local agent out there, a woman named Joy Purvis, and she ended up picking me up.
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There's no retirement, there's just a few years of non-work by the fire with someone bringing you some tea and relative peace and playing with the grandchildren.
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Heal the World, make it a better place, for you and for me and the entire human race, there are people dying, if you care enough for the living, make a better place for you and for me.
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Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that inevitably grows up around the smaller one?
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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.
