Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes
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You must be independent and able to do for yourself. Then you do not have to marry a rich man; you can marry a poor one. And if it is wrong, you can go.
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If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am! My size is a huge part of me.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration.
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First and foremost, I feel very lucky to have the family I have, so I would like my family to stay happy and healthy.
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You have to open up on stage.
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There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!
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I can't recommend technical writing as a day job for fiction writers because it's going to be hard to write all day and then come home and write fiction.
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I read every script from beginning to end, and I read every draft that I can. I like the show, I like the character, and I want to protect both of those things.
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The Bush administration doesn't particularly like public participation. It makes them look bad.
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I feel awed by the mystery of being both so finite and yet so infinite, so much and so little, so conscious and yet, so coincidental.
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He had so accustomed himself to wield the constitutional cat-of-nine-tails, that heaven will hardly be happy to him unless he be allowed to flog the cherubim.
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Men would bless you or curse you; The curse, a protest against failure, The blessing, a hymn of the hunter Who comes back from the hills With provision for his mate.
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Sometimes I worry that I've lost the plotMy twitching muscles tease my flippant thoughtsI never really dreamed of heaven muchUntil we put him in the ground.
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'I gather you were all too busy killing each other.''That’s a fairly reductive summary of our history, but I don’t suppose it’s too far from the truth.'
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Well, there are conjoined twins in real life and we can tell a story about them so long as they're not the brunt of the jokes. In this, they're the heroes of this story; we love these guys.
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Trust in God's timing. It's better to have to wait a while and have things fall into place then to rush into something and have things fall apart.
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My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
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Guard against idols - yes, guard against all idols, of which surely the greatest is oneself.
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I really love muscle cars. I don't think people might realize that about me. I really want to go to an auto auction and blow my life savings on a Camaro. They have such design around them, such panache.
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Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.