Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes
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Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.
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When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.
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And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer.
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One of the things that's frustrated me as a deep-sea explorer is how many animals there probably are in the ocean that we know nothing about because of the way we explore the ocean.
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There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
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Business as usual will not be accepted by any part of this city.
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My place in Chicago is a 105 year old house, but I really like contemporary spaces too, so it's refreshing and fun to be in a space where you can do contemporary things.
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I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.
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Most of the time, I'm not even working; I'm just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.
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My family has always called me 'Lay Lay,' and my dad used to always call me 'Dynamite Termite' because I was really short and small and I hated to be still. I would never stop.
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The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?
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I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.
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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
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The first thing I did that was at all in the public eye, other than on stage, was 'Oz,' in which I played the head of the Aryan Brotherhood in a maximum-security prison.
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When you accept everything for what it is without labels you are outside of your ego.
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Remember, this country had a man named J. Edgar Hoover, whose job it was to destroy the credibility of any black man coming up.
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The apartments of the rich are cabinets of curiosities: a conglomeration of classical antiquity, gothic, renaissance; Louis XIII... Something from every century but our own, a predicament that has arisen in no other period... so that we seem to be subsisting on the ruins of the past, as if the end of the world were near.
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Radio astronomers are aware in the back of their minds that if there are other civilizations out there in space, it might be the radio astronomers who first pick up the signal.
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Studying consciousness tells us more about how the world is fundamentally strange. I think we have a few revolutions to go yet before we get to the bottom of it.
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The idea is that angel investors are supposed to be wealthy people supporting people who need funds, typically who are not wealthy, and don't have the ability to do it themselves.
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The only thing I can do is act, but it's not something I even feel comfortable doing. It costs me a lot, because I'm a shy person, even if I don't look it.
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How to strike the right balance between our privacy and our expectation that the state will protect us and facilitate our freedom is one of the most difficult challenges facing us all.
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Drama school was the first place I learned that looks can affect your career. It was very horrible at the time. I had a lot of very bad experiences at drama school because of that, from the teachers and the students. In the end, I think it was good for me because it hardened me to the realities of the business early on.
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I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.
