Phyllis Bottome Quotes
Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.
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Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.
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I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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I think it's really important to give back and show other people that you care.
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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
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If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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It's not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an idea is when I start it.
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I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.
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A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
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When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.
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Many people with dyslexia truly suffer, and their lives are worse off for having had that disability.
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If you just did a horror tone throughout an entire movie you almost, as an audience, can get a little bit used to it. But if you're laughing one minute and, you know, somebody's doing something quite horrific the next minute, it's a little more shocking.
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I believe that there are no mistakes in the universe, so I think it all happens as it should!
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I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.
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During the Cold War era, the issue was the containment of Soviet influence, and we tolerated many an authoritarian regime as long as they were useful to us in this respect.
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The main point seems to be that I'm arrogant and narcissistic, which should be news to exactly four people.
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When a house is being built which is to be made as strong as possible, the building takes place in fine weather and in calm, so that nothing may hinder the structure from acquiring the needed solidity.
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I think people assumed because of my last name that I was a real right-winger. And if you cared to look at my writing, you would be hard pressed to deduce that I'm an ideological right-winger.
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I like English football, always have. It's just that people go on about the World Cup in 1986 and then I'm seen as the real bad boy.
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Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.
