Virginia Woolf Quotes
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One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.
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It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact!
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Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.
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We are currently working on new policies to protect and create American jobs, particularly by improving education. We need more information in order to find the best solutions to this increasing concern for American families.
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Frankly, our adversaries are emboldened by the lack of American leadership in the world, and our friends and our allies, they have lost trust in us.
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I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
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Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.
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One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots.
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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Every year, millions of people from Iran and Iraq travel to each other's countries, and we also have marriages between Iraqis and Iranians. Many Iranians were born in Iraq, and many Iraqis were born in Iran. This is a kind of special, cordial amicable ties.
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Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.
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I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
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I see the human in everyone and everything. No one is more important than anyone else; I still hang out with my high school friends.
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If I realize that actually there's quantum mechanics happening around us all the time in some macroscopic, interconnected way, then that doesn't change my perception of it, that doesn't change my interaction with it; it just changes how I view my interaction.
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I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
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The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .
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Bring acceptance and compassionate self-talk. Say nice things to yourself - you're the only one listening. Tell yourself, I am doing the best I can.
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We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.
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Wherever moral ambition exists, there right exists. And moral ambition itself must be presumed present in subconsciousness, even when the conscious self seems to reject it, so long as society has resources for bringing it into action; in much the same way that the life-saver presumes life to exist in the drowned man until he has exhausted his resources for recovering respiration.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
