Jeanette Winterson Quotes
Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.
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We are the only ones who really can care about the preservation Foreigners who come to excavate, maybe some of them care about preservation, but the majority care about discoveries.
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I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.
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I am interested in the subject which is Russia.
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If liberalism is to mean anything at all, it is duty bound to support without hesitation the dissenting individual over the group, the heretic over the orthodox, innovation over stagnation, and free speech over offense.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.
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I'm a visual person - when I write, my input is always visual. I worked in television for several years.
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How can we have our privacy? How can we have our independence now in these times with these cameras? Because I think privacy and our solitude is really important.
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This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.
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It's not just enough to swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let the ball have it.
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When you look at Google, its job is to find you the perfect web page. There are a lot of cases when you want to know something and a list of websites isn't ideal.
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I'm at the point age-wise where I've decided it's time to pass the baton to people who have several terms in front of them and have the energy and the excitement and the engagement that is necessary to carry it on.
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Adani Enterprises is well on track to realize its aim of emerging as India's largest private sector energy and logistics conglomerate.
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I've met so many who have opened doors for me and remained in my life both personally and professionally. After a while, networking doesn't feel like 'networking.' It's both serendipitous and unpredictable, and something that just naturally becomes part of your work life and your personal life.
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There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.
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The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.
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I really, really missed the Pennsylvania countryside and hills.
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I'm 48 years old, not a kid anymore by any definition, but here is a universal truth that every adult at some point will realize: We are all always 17 years old, waiting for our lives to begin.
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Today it is evident that we have two political parties: the Tax and Spenders and the No-Tax and Spenders. Neither party is fiscally conservative. Is there no room at the inn for an honest conservative? A conservative who makes the case for smaller government on its merits and not just as the fallback option when fiscal bankruptcy threatens?
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I just try to tell a story rather than present an open diary to the world.
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Those who believe that they have absolute truth and the only moral system are destructive both to themselves and to those whom they try to convert.
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Smiling just to see the smile upon your face. These are the moments I thank God that I'm alive.
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Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.
