Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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We're all idealistic when young.
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I don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act.
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I didn't have a sense of being in a show business family or of being different, partly because Los Angeles is an industry town, so you don't think about it as being special.
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The Sino-Indian War in 1962 has fundamentally shaped and distorted Indian attitudes towards China. It also obscured a great deal of what has happened in China since 1962.
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
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Some of the areas in China have been under very grave water scarcity: for example, the north China plain; they are facing a very serious water shortage. Per capita levels have dropped to very serious levels, including in Beijing.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early '90s. I don't think I was ever very good at pop music and as soon as I stopped trying, and started to write more the things I loved, it became much heavier and more aggressive.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short turnaround.
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What I love about 'Midnight Train' is that it's a song about a journey, but the music actually takes you on that journey. It feels like you're moving through the whole song.
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For too long, opponents of the PATRIOT Act have transformed this law into a grossly distorted caricature that bears no relation to the legislation itself.
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Slick marketing, high-tech production values, and a practical message have created a product that plays well to today's fickle churchgoer. Megachurches - defined as congregations with more than 2,000 members - number close to 600 in the United States.
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Toronto was a great place to work, a fun place to work. People were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minded, without being too critical. In Montreal, they got downright nasty sometimes.
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It turned out that the country was helpless in the face of a new reality.
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Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.
