Henrik Ibsen Quotes
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
Henrik Ibsen
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In the early '90s, it was grunge; everybody was fully clothed. Alanis Morissette was one of the biggest artists in the world, never wore makeup, wearing Doc Marten boots, and then the Spice Girls turn up, and suddenly it all looks a bit burlesque; suddenly they're the biggest band in the world.
Caitlin Moran
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SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.
Larry Niven
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Americans deserve a better tomorrow, today.
Nancy Pelosi
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It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.
Vincent Canby
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I'm just concerned that if I get older, people aren't going to enjoy me as much as when I was younger, because I had a great voice for a little girl, but I mean, my voice can't get any bigger when I'm older.
Jackie Evancho
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Look to the Bible and not your feelings as the basis of the Christian life.
R. C. Sproul
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Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.
Aristotle
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The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
William Penn
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There is a strong conservative instinct in the average man or woman, born of the hereditary fear of life, that prompts them to cling to old standards, or, if too intelligent to look inhospitably upon progress, to move very slowly. Both types are the brakes and wheelhorses necessary to a stable civilization, but history, even current history in the newspapers, would be dull reading if there were no adventurous spirits willing to do battle for new ideas.
Gertrude Atherton
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I solidify his [ Riccardo Tisci] vision and what he is trying to manifest, make it a crystal or solid thing because of the relationship I have with my culture and what my music means to him.
Erykah Badu
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Women are not In their best fortunes strong, but want will perjure the ne'er-touched vestal.
William Shakespeare
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Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
Henrik Ibsen