Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.
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I was thinking as a little girl growing up that I would be there. When I look at whether we can go to Mars, it's definitely something we can do.
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Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
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Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.
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When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.
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We practically own everything in the Philippines.
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In L.A., wives can fly on the plane; with the Yankees, they can't. With other teams, the wives always have functions to bring them together. Not here. You don't know what half the wives look like.
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I'm not afraid of a big studio film; I trust my instincts. But for me, it's not really about box office. It's about looking back on your work and not having to apologize for it.
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Rian Malan was one of the first younger writers to perceive and write about a darkness in the South African psyche that goes deeper than mere politics. To some extent, that's my territory, too.
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Actually, I don't even like parties. I would much prefer a room with four friends who sit around and have dinner. I detest nightclubs. And I don't like places where the noise is so loud you can't talk to people.
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There's nothing about my life that I would have changed.
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It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and more interesting, how it has changed our moods, brought out the best in our character and even sometimes helped us earn a living.
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There are so many emotions that you're feeling, you can get stifled by them if you're feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment - one simple, simple feeling - and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.
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If stem cells divide equally, so both daughter cells look more or less the same, each one becomes another stem cell. If the split is unequal, neurons form prematurely.
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Muslims should live like brothers.
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Logic always seems to be telling us, in language quite unnecessarily technical, what we understood much better before it was explained.
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Subconsciously he knew too, that the oriental woman is not a sensualist in the European sense; there is nothing mawkish in her constitution. Her true obsessions are power, politics and possessions - however much she might deny it. The sex ticks on in the mind, but its motions are warmed by the kinetic brutalities of money. (X)
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Humbling was a nice word, Rahel thought. Humbling along without a care in the world.
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There is a distinguishes between low-end disruption which targets customers who do not need the full performance valued by customers at the high end of the market and 'new-market disruption' that targets customers that could previously not be served profitably by the incumbent.
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I get worked up over an 'idea' or the ethos of an idea. I follow dreams, take notes on travels, and engage in research often - if I need names, details, facts that enhance the project.
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It's not a giant thrill to hear someone give you the label 'manic-depressive,' but to me I was so relieved. What I was suffering from had a name and could be treated.
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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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When you're dealing with serious subjects, there is a pressure to be absolutely sure that you know what you're doing.
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Love is blind.
