Jane Harrison Quotes
Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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In my role as a spokesperson for Amnesty International U.S.A. and as a supporter of various charitable causes including Unlock Iran, a campaign to release prisoners of conscience in Iran, I have never been faced with the threat of intimidation or arrest.
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Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
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As a general rule, when you comment on a blog, make it knowledgeable or witty and, most of all, relevant to that post - then, simply sign it with your name and your book title. Resist the urge to brag or sell your book.
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I am very interested in Ayurvedic medicine and hope to explore it more someday. I only have a very superficial understanding of the whole thing right now. But learning what my body type is has shifted my whole self-care regime a bit, and I feel better because of it.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.
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It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
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I come from an alcoholic Irish background - I know where I was going! But I met my wife and started to practise Buddhism, which is a levelling experience for me, and there hasn't been a day I've missed in 40 years. I apply it to everything - to my work and relationships. I try to be a compassionate person.
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I really hate drama. It's draining; it's mentally draining. It's a waste of time.
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Investors are right to demand a clear path to self-sustainability from every business they invest in, and I believe we should ask for the same from philanthropy.
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Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
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Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.
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Acting's boring.
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Force-backed humanitarianism, which relies on rational influence over events in other countries, may have been a more feasible project in the bipolar era of the Cold War, with its relatively defined and stable web of alliances and proxies.
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In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed-- But a waking dream of life and light Hath left me broken-hearted.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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The principal source of the harm done by the State is the fact that power is its chief end.
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I have not had any plastic surgery in any shape or form. No implants. And my hair is not dyed.
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An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop.
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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.
