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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When it comes to the personal essays I write, I just convince myself that no one will ever read them.
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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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I've been very fortunate and met the guys that have become, basically, philosophers and have a kind of sensibility about life that's very precious.
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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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When contrasted with the much longer time that life has been present, the course of Christianity thus far is but a brief moment.
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In all things, to serve from the lowest station upwards is necessary. To restrict yourself to a trade is best. For the narrow mind, whatever he attempts is still a trade; for the higher, an art; and the highest in doing one thing does all, or, to speak less paradoxically, in the one thing which he does rightly he sees the likeness of all that is done rightly.
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I'm happy that people have loved my film and my work. I have always let my work do the talking, and I guess I have proved to my critics that I'm not over.
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Indeed I did not stand as a beggar at the Parliament door, for I never was at the Parliament-House, nor stood I ever at the door as I do know or can remember; not as a petitioner I am sure.
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When Bernie Sanders was announcing that he was going to be a candidate for the nomination of the Democratic Party in Burlington, Vermont, I was the only cable host between FOX, MSNBC, and CNN that was there to cover it live.
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I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.
