Virginia Woolf Quotes
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Quotes to Explore
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I have been the struggler of the century. Fortunately, everyone loves the underdog.
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Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.
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The ironic thing is I took Kole from a family name - we had a vote and they had a few names, but Kole won - and getting it spelled with a 'K' is a constant correction, too. I'll never not be Warren Blosjo; it's just my stage name.
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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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I have an appetite to always learn.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
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If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.
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It's hard to kill that father-son bond.
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When we have sealed the outer border and thus stopped the illegal migration, we can talk about any solution.
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With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
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I want money; I just don't want that money lying around.
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Here's the thing: 'The Hurt Locker' was an amazing, important film. But did I enjoy it? Of course not. It was very tough to watch and, while gripping, not exactly what you'd call a happy place.
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Christianity taught that men ought to be as chaste as pagans thought honest women ought to be; the contraceptive morality teaches that women need to be as little chaste as pagans thought men need be.
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Floyd Paterson? Boy, he's the complete opposite to me. He no way like me. They go down in history for just being athletes. I'm getting more praise and credit for doing what I'm doing now on this show than coming here and beating five of your English champions.
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Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, And black despair succeeds brown study.
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Irish people are pragmatic. They understand that nobody is going to fix our problems but ourselves.
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I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
