Virginia Woolf Quotes
I'm terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity.
Virginia Woolf
Quotes to Explore
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I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.
Bao Dai
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I'm married, I have three children, I never hit my wife.
Ja Rule
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When resources are degraded, we start competing for them, whether it is at the local level in Kenya, where we had tribal clashes over land and water, or at the global level, where we are fighting over water, oil, and minerals. So one way to promote peace is to promote sustainable management and equitable distribution of resources.
Wangari Maathai
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I'm an obsessive person. I like intensity.
Mandy Patinkin
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In some ways, the '60s were a reaction to the '50s and the intensity of the Cold War.
Tariq Ali
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The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.
Camille Paglia
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You're going to pull out your phone and try to use whatever is the most appropriate app on your iPhone or your Android device. Yelp saw that very early on. And when we launched the mobile product, we saw immediate growth, and we were stunned.
Max Levchin
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I've found that if I limit my talking, just everyday talking, a couple of days before I have to sing, my voice is stronger. That really is about the only precaution that I take: I try to rest it as much as possible and keep the nutritional value of my food up.
Johnny Mathis
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The most common misconception about me is that I'm basically a jazz singer.
Phoebe Snow
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As costly as it was in the lives of our men and women in uniform, in military assets, and in esteem and pride, Pearl Harbor was a watershed moment for America.
Joe Baca
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I listened to pretty much anything that I could really feel, where I felt like the artist had to write those songs, where you can feel their soul and the pain and the happiness and love and everything.
Jillian Rose Banks
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Goal setting should be part of your daily and weekly routines and should not be based on a calendar year or month.
Lewis Howes
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I had learnt to seek intensity rather than happiness, not joys and prosperity but more of life, a concentrated sense of life, a strengthened feeling of existence, fullness and concentration of pulse, energy, growth, flowering, beyond the image of happiness or unhappiness.
Nina Berberova
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If somebody writes clearly, you can pretty much tell immediately if something is shallow or deep, whereas if they write with all this duckweed on the surface, you can't tell if the stream is one inch deep or a hundred fathoms.
Vikram Seth
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If a novelist tells you something she knows or thinks, and you believe her, that is not because either of you think she is God, but because she is doing her work - as a novelist.
A. S. Byatt
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After the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle to fix the things that had gone wrong.
Sally Ride
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I'm terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity.
Virginia Woolf
