Sarah Fielding Quotes
The motives to actions and the inward turns of mind seem in our opinion more necessary to be known than the actions themselves; and much rather would we choose that our reader should clearly understand what our principal actors think than what they do.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel?
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The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't do it, but I also wanted to make sure it was balanced with the proper attention to his studies.
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If you don't find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don't have the right people being positive around you, this is a very scary job to have if you don't learn how to control your fear.
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Every time you treat an Iraqi disrespectfully, you are working for the enemy.
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Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they're both very creative.
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The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.
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I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
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I'm a comedian, and my comedy has never endorsed violence towards gays.
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The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.
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Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
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One of the Life Saving men snapped the camera for us, taking a picture just as the machine had reached the end of the track and had risen to a height of about two feet.
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I'm a novelist, and I'm a woman, and I'm considered to be a serious author whether I like it or not.
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My real name is Joe Kennedy, but if you live in Massachusetts, you can't sign 'Joe Kennedy.' So, back in 1957, I stuck the X on my name to be different from those people in Hyannis Port.
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These were people who believed everything about the Soviet Union was perfect, but they were bringing their own toilet paper.
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There was only one thing of which he could be certain now. Boredom would not be a serious problem for a considerable time to come.
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Physiological experiment on animals is justifiable for real investigation; but not for mere damnable and detestable curiosity.
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I listen to a lot of criticism. From the Left and the Right and from everywhere. I mean, everybody's a media critic. And sometimes I think it's on point, and other times, I think about it and consider it and then might ultimately disagree with it. But I do listen to it; I really do.
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Homey don't quit. What else are you gonna do? It's like those guys in the cartoon they get up in the morning, check the clock and fight all day and after it's over they check the clock and go home. That's how it goes.
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It is easy to make plans but difficult to carry them out.
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I don't think of myself as a dissident, and I'm more of an immigrant than an exile.
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It's a very American thing that everything has to be a business. Americans think... I like America, or I would not be here. There are great qualities to this country. But this sense that everything has to be a business is sometimes overwhelming.
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The motives to actions and the inward turns of mind seem in our opinion more necessary to be known than the actions themselves; and much rather would we choose that our reader should clearly understand what our principal actors think than what they do.
