Jane Welsh Carlyle Quotes
Men may be rivals, opponents in their fortunes, and yet be friends in their hearts and fair towards each other's worth; but woman, the instant she is rivaled, becomes unjust.
Quotes to Explore
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
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Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.
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Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.
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That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.
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In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.
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I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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With publicity comes humiliation.
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By five or six, when the heels start to hurt, I kick off my shoes and walk bare feet. But that's not a big deal. Nobody else is at the office at that time, and as for singing loudly, I don't sing loudly. I might hum a tune at times when I am thinking about something, but that's all fine.
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Everything I want to do in my life, I want to be at the top.
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Ford made some of the most progressive pictures.
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
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I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.
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I think ballet has influenced my personality a lot in the sense that I am very disciplined in all of my endeavours. I am always on time; I take things very seriously. I've built up my inner strength and self-esteem over time as I've improved as a dancer.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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Thanks to every gay person in public and non-public life who has come out.
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Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all discovery. It was all just thrown at me.
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Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals with no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.
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Making a movie is still very difficult in Hollywood, regardless of what you have and what level you're at. It is a house of cards, and things have to perfectly align.
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Senator [George] Mitchell is a man of many talents and he's swift on his feet, but one would not think of him as 'dancing with the stars.' And we had this great rock 'n' roll fund raiser.
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Men may be rivals, opponents in their fortunes, and yet be friends in their hearts and fair towards each other's worth; but woman, the instant she is rivaled, becomes unjust.
