Saint Augustine Quotes
No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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I love a good Slash guitar riff. It's sexy!
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Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.
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A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
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I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.
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I think I've always been somebody to break rules.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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There's nothing that's impossible to me. You can ask my parents.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.
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Being the one woman in the room should not be seen as a victory. If there's only one of us in the room, we're still a token; we don't actually have an empowered voice. If there's two of us, we're still a minority. If there's three, then we're allowed to have a multiplicity of opinions.
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The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
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It's Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony I'm really looking forward to. Simon Rattle does it perfectly: he understands its primal rhythmic life force, and he and the wonderful Berliners make it a sheer riot of orchestral colour.
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For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.
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When I meet the right girl I'll definitely have no hesitations to a relationship.
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No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor.
