Virginia Woolf Quotes
To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
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I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
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It's like driving your car. If you drive too fast on the highway, you will topple, so you better maintain your speed. Life is similar to that, and that's the way you have to control your head.
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I'm still somebody that listens to a lot of James Brown, a lot of The O'Jays, a lot of TLC... in that era, producers had more musicianship.
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I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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A dead end street is a good place to turn around.
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I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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Someone who knew me when I was 14 said I was the oldest 14-year-old on the planet. Now I'm a 14-year-old who is 60.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.
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When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.
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The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.
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Thank god, and now all I have are, twenty one years together, in January and, you know, I, you know I forgot this all about things. And anyway the first place is good thing.
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You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place.
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I love to be awful. There's nothing wrong with being awful.
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Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
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Blasphemy and sedition meaning the truth about Church and State.
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To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
