Joseph Jacobs Quotes
Obscure as still remains the origin of that 'genre' of romance to which the tales before us belong, there is little doubt that their models, if not their originals, were once extant at Constantinople.
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People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.
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I hate bell peppers, which is annoying because they technically have my name all over them.
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Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to humans but none of which that are unique to language. Coming together they make language possible. But the fundamental building block of language is community.
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In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.
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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.
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The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
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The proposed Bush regulations put politics above the health care needs of Americans.
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I played recorder in assembly, then I became passionate about the guitar, I don't know why. I started on electric then moved to acoustic - my brother was playing bass in the next room.
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They flat their fifths, we drink ours.
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Adam was created to be the friend and companion of God, he was to have dominion over all the life in the air and earth and sea, but one thing he was not to have dominion over, and that was himself.
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History is the chronicle of divorces between creed and deed.
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We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
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Only when you accept that one day you'll die can you let go, and make the best out of life. And that's the big secret. That's the miracle.
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I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made, from the bones of the body into shelter.
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The paper on Iran is a paper of reflection. As you know the situation of Iran today is in the Security Council. It has been a statement by the Presidency of Council last month.
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I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.
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We arrogantly assume that the nervous system doesn't really need to be coaxed into romance. That romance comes from some other place.
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I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if it were indispensable for me to keep it up & never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No - I must keep my own style & go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other.
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Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
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Obscure as still remains the origin of that 'genre' of romance to which the tales before us belong, there is little doubt that their models, if not their originals, were once extant at Constantinople.
