Isabelle Eberhardt (Isabelle Wilhelmine Marie Eberhardt) Quotes
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
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When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.
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My mom and my father's birthday are on the same day.
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Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.
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I think of myself as somebody who, in a moment-to-moment way, I'm quite happy. But I think I am a bit doubtful and wary of true happiness, and, like a lot of my friends, there's been a good degree of self-sabotage.
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I'm lucky I have a fast metabolism... my whole family does... everyone's got a lot of nervous energy so we burn it off.
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In our case, finding a Lucy is unique. No one will ever find another Lucy. You can't order one from a biological supply house. It's a unique discovery, a unique specimen.
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My beauty secret is to try to keep my heart as open and happy as I can, because it really makes the sad lines on my face look better.
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If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.
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Boys do cry, but I don't think I shed a tear for a good chunk of my teenage years.
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It's hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.
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Morality is not only taught; it is caught.
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I just would like to keep going. If I kept getting the kind of work that I've been getting for the last 20 years for the next 20, I'd be a bloody Dame of the British Empire. I'd be so happy.
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I work with my brother Finneas, and he produces all of my music in his little bedroom in our house. We actually tried renting out a studio for a month when we were producing 'Don't Smile at Me,' but it was really hard there, and we ended up just doing it at home anyway.
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It could be that people just want to be connected to something that's bigger than they are that can't be proven. I don't know, I don't think that's it.
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As long as we're dependent on those fossil fuels, we're dependent on the Middle East. If we are not victims, we're certainly captives.
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The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.
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You have to be 100 percent comfortable with yourself and who you are. You'll have unflattering pictures posted on the Internet for all to see, so you have to be able to handle yourself and stay true to yourself.
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'Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?'
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The picture of Mother Teresa that I remember from my childhood is of a short, sari-wearing woman scurrying down a red gravel path between manicured lawns. She would have in tow one or two slower-footed, sari-clad young Indian nuns. We thought her a freak. Probably we'd picked up on unvoiced opinions of our Loreto nuns.
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I think one country with nuclear weapons is one country too many.
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One must use the weapons one finds in one's path.