Jane Seymour Quotes
In life, when stuff happens the instinct is to close off your heart. By leaving your heart open, it leaves room for someone else to come in.
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There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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If you see the NBA now, a lot of it is in transition. Most people now try to get an easy shot off in six or eight seconds before the defense gets set.
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The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
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A lot of people don't like me.
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
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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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Because women have been marginalised, they're more likely to behave like immigrants and continue to push themselves forward in order to avoid falling through the cracks, but I don't think a happy ending comes from matriarchy.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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When I was a 7-year-old girl, in my bedroom, on my karaoke machine, I would sing 'On My Own' or do a one-woman version of 'Les Miserables.'
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Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.
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I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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In Japan, I focus mostly on sending messages through Twitter, trying to spread my minority way of thinking.
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I don't really have any gimmicks. I don't actually do anything that's strange. I don't even wear weird things.
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Judaism and Christianity in themselves are distinctly separate entities, to be sure; but when considering their influence on Western thought, we must bear in mind that Christianity alone, or almost alone, transmitted the Jewish share, simply by what it contained of it in its own, original constitution.
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In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!
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Education should aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus schooled they will be incapable throughout the rest of their lives of thinking or acting otherwise than as their school masters would have wished.
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Jim Longenbach, poet, critic, and my husband, is always passing along life-changing books for me to read.
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What does not kill me makes me stronger.
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A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.
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I'm enormously proud of being the ancestor of a convict. That's mad, isn't it, but I really am.
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In life, when stuff happens the instinct is to close off your heart. By leaving your heart open, it leaves room for someone else to come in.
