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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A very unclubable man.
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When you accept everything for what it is without labels you are outside of your ego.
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The critic does not pass judgment on the work; rather, art itself passes judgment, either by taking up the work in the medium of criticism or by rejecting it and thereby appraising it as beneath all criticism.
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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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A photographer's best pictures are from deep inside him, and also some of the worst. Some photographers enjoy distinguished careers without ever taking personal photographs. Others, audaciously and arrogantly and courageously discharge their most private feelings through photography. Trouble is, sometimes it all adds up to baloney.
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Every maiden's weak and willin' When she meets the proper villian.
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Things could not have been brought into being by God in any manner or in any order different from that which has in fact obtained.
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I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.
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It's not that transgender people are going to go and molest children. It's that once you say men can go into women's bathrooms - men who are out shopping with their little daughters and don't have mommy to bring her in there. It's not that the trans are going to molest them, it's that a child molester now has the right to go into that bathroom.
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I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.
