Jessica De Gouw Quotes
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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I love my family and I miss them very much but I'm a new person now. I know a lot of people will not agree with what I've done, but it was right for me.
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Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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For a long time I have been thinking about affordable fashion - you can be disappointed when not so many people can wear your stuff.
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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I am not keen just for the position; I'm keen to help and to serve. If I can really avoid any bad things on my country, I will not hesitate one second.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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You can over-think things. If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorising rather than being real.
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I like to get up around 5:30 or six - that's my favorite time of day. My family is still asleep, and the office is still closed, so I can start my day slowly.
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I wear Rick Owens T-shirts to bed. They are like my thermals, since I sleep with the room at near freezing temperatures, like a meat locker.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.
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Sometimes you're watching a great film actor, and if you stand 10 feet away from them, you're like, 'God, they're terrible. They're not doing anything.' And then you see the close-up, and it's so nuanced, and so much expression is happening. They were acting for that camera and for no one else.
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I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am.
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People call me a genius. I don't know much about geniuses. But I do believe that what I achieved was not just because of the ability that I was born with but also because I worked hard.
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Jimmy Baldwin was the creator of contemporary American speech even before Americans could dig that. He created it so we could speak to each other at unimaginable intensities of feeling, so we could make sense to each other at yet higher and higher tempos.
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Real success means creating a life of meaning through service that fulfills your reason for being here.
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To punish is the most difficult thing there is. A society such as ours needs to question every aspect of punishment as it is practiced everywhere: in the army, the schools, the factories.
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I actually have a very real, irrational fear of zombies.