Jessamyn West Quotes
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
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I love to push myself.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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My day-to-day look is inspired by comfort, color and just how I'm feeling that day.
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Personal life? I'd like to keep it private.
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Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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I hated school so bad. I only liked art class during high school. I was always smart.
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Everybody grows but me.
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I felt privileged to be a facet of such a jewel in the crown of American cinema.
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I'm rediscovering Scotland; I'm falling in love with it again.
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It's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters.
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In papergaming, players can look at a character sheet of their own creation and see all of their skills, right there, in black and white.
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The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates.
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The overwhelming majority of my rated wealth consists of investments in companies that produce goods and services.
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We should realise that Hollywood is not obliged to write roles for Asian actors.
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There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets.
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To increase the zone of peace is to build the inner core of a stable international zone.
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First let me report that the art in the Barnes Collection has never looked better. My trips to the old Barnes were always amazing, but except on the sunniest days, you could barely see the art. The building always felt pushed beyond its capacity.
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We're all the same. We all want the same thing in life. Everybody going around like ants and we all want the same thing. And it's not one queen. It's not one queen with the wings.
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It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public school that feeling is bad form. He must not express great joy or sorrow, or even open his mouth too wide when he talks-his pipe might fall out if he did.
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For the record, my own loyalties are uncomplicated. I adore few humans more than I love books. I make no promises, but I do not expect to purchase a Kindle or a Nook or any of their offspring. I hope to keep bringing home bound paper books until my shelves snap from their weight, until there is no room in my apartment for a bed or a couch or another human being, until the floorboards collapse and my eyes blur to dim. But the book, bless it, is not a simple thing.
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Look, as long as we can enrich uranium and master the fuel cycle, we don’t need anything else. Our neighbors will be able to draw the proper conclusions.
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A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
