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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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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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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I always have said from the beginning of my career that I was going for the 'Geek Trifecta' because I'm such a total geek. I want to be in everything that has to do with the things that I enjoyed when I was a kid, which was 'Battlestar Galactica,' and being in 'Big Bang Theory,' and being in video games.
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The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
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We properly judge a critic's virtue not by his freedom from error but by the nature of the mistakes he does make, for he makes them, if he is worth reading, because he has in mind something besides his perceptions about art in itself - he has in mind the demands that he makes upon life.
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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
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He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him.
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You can bet there's something fishy going on. I guess some large mouth bass left that lipstick on our shirt.
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What I love about the term 'salad' is that it can appear in so many different forms and says a lot about the cook. It could be a simple as fresh green lettuces tossed with a basic vinaigrette, or it could be as hearty as a couscous salad with grilled shrimp.
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One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping stone to something better.
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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.
