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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I have spent 30 years working with police officers, doing everything I can to help them do their jobs, honoring the sacrifices they make every day.
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Be kind to your garden and be gentle on your back!
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Consequently, in the chain of reactions accompanying the creative act, a link is missing. This gap which represents the inability of the artist to express fully his intention, this difference between what he intended to realize and did realize, is the personal 'art coefficient', contained in the work.
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I like to play snooker, golf as well.
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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.
