Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes

I think psychologically Margaret Thatcher is really worth studying. I am reading Charles Moore's biography of her, and he has gotten us right there with a woman who lived the unexamined life, and lived it deliberately, and who has contempt for history, even her own.

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  Sam Graves
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• Painting bodies with the patterns of Kusama's hallucinations obliterated their individual selves and returned them to the infinite universe.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
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• I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!

  

  Danica McKellar
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• I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.

  

  Farnaz Fassihi
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• I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I'm between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like 'Julian Po,' or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard.

  

  Malcolm Gets
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• Bolivar's legacy has always been a part of the Venezuelan/Latin American imagery, especially in the countries that he liberated or he helped to liberate. He's been a very prominent figure.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
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• The more you work, the more people can see that you're something different from what's come before.

  

  Felicity Jones
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• I have to get a workout in in the morning. Once my day starts, I'll have the best intentions, and it still won't happen: one of the kids needs to be picked up somewhere, I have to hop on a conference call, or I'm just tired. So I get it done in the A.M.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Up
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• There's a good lesson for policymakers: It's not the presence of the U.S. that is a problem for many people in the Arab region; it's the type of presence we bring.

  

  Ian Lustick
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• Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
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• I think the kids today need to hear more about morals and values.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Kids
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• The government can't even do a good job of something as simple as running the Post Office. How can it be expected to do a good job with something really important, like educating our children?

  

  Rand Paul
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• Most of us are raised to believe we are ordinary. The anchor of the universe is present in every child. A parent only needs to guide and step aside and let them fulfill their dharma. Help children remember that they can do or be anything.

  

  Wayne Dyer
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• Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military.

  

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• Sail through the sea of sad faces with love. Love. Love for everyone. Drift like a little boat on a wave.

  

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• There is a constant rush to judgment in Foucault. He is filled with specious generalizations, false categories, distortions, fudging, pretenses to knowledge in areas where he was ignorant. He had no ability whatsoever to distinguish among historical sources, where he makes terrible blunders.

  

  Camille Paglia
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• In general, we run the farm like a business instead of a welfare recipient, and we adhere to historically-validated patterns.

  

  Joel Salatin
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• The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.

  

  Paul Cezanne
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• This is probably the biggest environmental disaster we have ever faced in this country. It is certainly the biggest oil spill and we are responding with the biggest environmental response.

  

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• Space is not just going up and coming back down again. Space is getting into orbit and being there, living there, establishing a presence, a permanence.

  

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• I have never turned to my girlfriend and said, Oh, okay, babe, and I see it in scripts all the time.

  

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• I'm for the DREAM Act. It makes so much sense. Following the implementation of the DREAM Act, we'll have a case study we can point to where we can say that we provided a path to citizenship or legal involvement in the community for these young immigrants, and the sky didn't fall.

  

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• I think psychologically Margaret Thatcher is really worth studying. I am reading Charles Moore's biography of her, and he has gotten us right there with a woman who lived the unexamined life, and lived it deliberately, and who has contempt for history, even her own.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Reading
  • Study
  • Contempt