Jean M. Auel Quotes
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I don't have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can from the people I am close to.
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I love Chicago.
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She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.
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In 1925, when Britain went back to the gold standard, that was supported by the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Bank of England, the civil service, the CBI, the TUC, the Times, the Economist; that consensus was very strong.
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Anonymity would be a fantastic umbrella. I don't like intrusion.
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I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
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I've taken great pride in not being fragile.
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We're having such a great time on 'Nashville' that building on the relationship seemed an obvious next step. Lionsgate is the perfect home for the kind of scripted television I want to produce and direct.
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It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
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It's easy to focus on the things that divide us. Sometimes too easy.
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Having one's image, and effectively, life, democratized, dehumanizes and sometimes objectifies it into an entertainment product. What sort of valuation of the ego would one have once you've let it been preyed upon by the public for years and years? Perhaps, it becomes truly just skin and bones.
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If I had the day off and knew everyone else was voting, I wouldn't miss it. It would become a routine part of my responsibility as a citizen - like paying taxes, only less soul crushing.
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Putting our ecosystem in great peril is certainly not a part of Chinese culture that I know.
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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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My parents are very good parents and have already said that they will look after me until the end of my skating career.
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Don't get in arguments with your coaches. If you have a certain opinion, express it to the best of your ability. But don't get on his bad side.
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Above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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How strange it seems that education, in practice, so often means suppression: that instead of leading the mind outward to the light of day it crowds things in upon it that darken and weary it. Yet evidently the true object of education, now as ever, is to develop the capabilities of the head and of the heart.
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A society that rewards people for violence will get more violence. A society that tolerates people who violate the non-aggression principle will be ruled by aggressive people. A society that believes aggression is necessary in order to function will institutionalize coercion and reward those who provide what it considers necessary.
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Women are socialized to take advantage of four informal options for emotional support: husbands; womenfriends; children; and parents. Men are socialized to take advantage of only one of these informal options: their wife or womanfriend.
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Rap in general has never been my steez, but I like it.
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A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself.
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Everything happens for a reason, but that doesn't mean there's a point.
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I really fell in love with Africa.
