Isabelle Eberhardt (Isabelle Wilhelmine Marie Eberhardt) Quotes
I think it is impossible for human minds to think of Death as a final, irrevocable end to life.
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Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous.
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For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.
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With the death of bin Laden, it's finally time for Congress to bring back the pre-9-11 legal norm, before we decided it was okay to toss out our civil liberties if the 'bad guys' were scary enough.
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There's just a natural instinct to want to be great, I think.
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Rapunzel is a bit more relatable than the other princesses, especially because she doesn't even know that she's a princess until the very end of the movie. I like to think of her as the bohemian Disney princess. She's barefoot and living in a tower. She paints and reads... She's a Renaissance woman.
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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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I have freckles; I don't like covering up too much. I like things dewy and natural, and I think that having moisture in your skin is really beautiful and youthful - sometimes that's more important than coverage.
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What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.
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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
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I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.
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When I'm in the U.K. – and I'm here more than people would think – I tend to keep a very low profile.
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PepsiCo did not have a woman in the senior ranks, nor a foreign-born person who was willing to think differently.
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I think magazines and interviews make celebrities into this bigger-than-life thing, but I've gotten bullied over trying different things with my makeup.
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I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.
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I think trying to be offbeat is the most boring thing possible.
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I don't think I have a demographic. I was at Comic-Con in San Diego recently, and I was doing a signing, and my line was all military guys, young girls, housewives and guys in wheelchairs. There was just everybody all over the place.
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I like things that are just about to go. Everything's leaving. Death is never far away from me. When you make something, death can't help but be in it.
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I think the toughest part for me was when Herschelle said that he obviously looked up to his Captain, and he felt if his Captain could do it, then so could he, and that to me was when it really struck home.
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When death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred virtues rise, in shapes of mercy, charity, and love, to walk the world and bless it. Of every tear that sorrowing mortals shed on such green graves, some good is born, some gentler nature comes.
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After a divorce, men’s biggest fear is, typically, losing their children (women’s is poverty).
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The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
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I think it is impossible for human minds to think of Death as a final, irrevocable end to life.
