Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.
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Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise families of their own, Hugh Hefner still considered them his women, and in the bound volumes of his magazine he would always possess them.
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Neurologists have a host of clinical tests that let them observe what a brain-damaged patient can and cannot do.
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I can only stick my neck out and offer my humble beliefs. If I become an outsider by doing so, this won't be a great hardship as I've been that as far back as I can remember - something strange and unacceptable in the eyes of those who believe they see straight. At least it's given me courage of a kind, which I'd like every Australian to acquire.
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Getting hurt changed me, he said. Changed my perspective. I've moved on, in a way. Some things have fallen into place that were not there before. I thought they were, but they werent. The best way I can put it is that I've sort of caught up with myself. That's not a bad thing. It was overdue.
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It's not just about checking the box on corporate social responsibility. It's about hitting our bottom line.
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They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette.
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I didn't get to play many video games when I was growing up.
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There were two things I wanted to be: an actor and a hippie.
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We should advocate that the North should stay in the customs union and the single market and that any customs checks should be in the ports and airports, not on land borders.
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My mother and sisters cooked Italian food, and I never heard of half of the dishes you see in these Italian restaurants. I just go in and order spaghetti.
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That the apostolic office is temporary, is a plain historical fact.
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Carly Fiorina has campaigned hard in New Hampshire to earn support from voters.
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Team GB's success at the Beijing Olympics can, in part, be said to have been made in Manchester. For example, all the cycling medal winners trained at Manchester's velodrome, the National Cycling Centre.
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Yeah, I mean, climbing's always been a massive hobby of mine up until, kind of, recent times when I've had family, but no, it's been a driving passion in my life and, uh, I've always wanted to climb the Matterhorn. It was the mountain that, sort of, inspired me to climb, as a youngster. So, it was great to be able to get to do it.
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My mum, she has a very specific way of mixing bourgeois and hippie. She doesn't wear a lot of make-up, but she always has to wear glasses, and she has this huge collection of glasses. And no rules.
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I wanted to get my coaching badges after retiring, and I asked to take the exam, but they told me I needed to study for four years. I told them they were crazy. Who is going to study for four years? How is someone going to teach me technical things when I know more than they do?
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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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Adversity does not make us frail; it only shows us how frail we are.
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Spirits that live throughout, Vital in every part, not as frail man, In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins, Cannot but by annihilating die.
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Now the melancholy God protect thee, and the tailor make thy garments of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is opal.
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The teachers of our law, and to propose What might improve my knowledge or their own.
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There is no single concept of nature; it embraces everything that is fluid, changing, and mysterious. Ultimately, however, to “know nature” on earth is to live within it and to revere it in every way.
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
