Isabella Bird Quotes
Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases 'biggest in the world,' 'finest in the world,' are on all lips.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.
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The Bay of Bengal is hit frequently by cyclones. The months of November and May, in particular, are dangerous in this regard.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
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You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!
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I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.
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I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confident as I needed to be, so I started directing theater; then I played in some movies, and then I felt the need to do my own stuff.
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What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of 'CSI' and 'Grey's Anatomy' episodes with pints of ice cream.
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Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
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At the end of the day, I want to be a teacher at a university, teaching film or acting.
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As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, 'I don't want to become like Bruce Lee's son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.' I just think my son is too lazy.
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From a consideration of the immense volume of newly discovered facts in the field of physics, especially atomic physics, in recent years it might well appear to the layman that the main problems were already solved and that only more detailed work was necessary.
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There's nothing I hate more than gritty, linty, mysterious pocket schmutz in the cap of my lip moisturizer - or, even worse, on the applicator itself. I shudder at the thought.
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Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
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I find the term 'perfect child' to be an oxymoron.
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Restraining the thought-streams natural to the mind, ... the seer dwells in his own nature. Otherwise he is of the same form as the thought-streams.
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If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.
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Globalization and technical change are the guarantee of our future prosperity. And reversing on that will not only make things worse, but it will make things worse for a very large number of people around the world who have benefitted - people in China and India who have been dragged out of the most awful poverty.
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Any writing teacher tells you to write what you know, and for better or for worse, Washington is a world I know well.
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I came from a childhood where I spent a lot of time alone and a lot of time just living with my imagination, and a certain amount of the adult world was kind of alienating.
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This is the big question that we all have about our children: How much, how soon, do we tell our children the less comfortable facts about the world they're going to inherit?
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Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases 'biggest in the world,' 'finest in the world,' are on all lips.
