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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The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
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Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.
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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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I'm quite content: although what I'm doing is far from being as I should like, I am complemented often enough all the same.
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I'm a bad guy. But if I was a good guy, nobody would want to pay to see me fight.
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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
