Virginia Woolf Quotes
If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.
Quotes to Explore
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You don't think about the danger. The spaceship becomes your home.
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I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.
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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face just by walking into a room. It's unbelievable. And if I have that power, who am I to waste it, you know?
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We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
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I led the life of an intellectual up until a certain age. I remember Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams' was a big favorite when I was 11. It sounded so interesting. And it really was!
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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I was making my living from a joke about my appearance that I didn't understand, and in a way still don't, because when I look in a mirror it doesn't seem funny to me.
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I'm also politically independent so I'm not a fan of either the Democrats in Congress or the Republicans in Congress.
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I don't know what would have happened to Wal-Mart if we had laid low and never stirred up the competition. My guess is that we would have remained a strictly regional operator.
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Whoever comes to me finds me a mirror to whatever is in his heart. Thus, I try to help him to see qualities in himself that he needs to overcome.
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Let her who is forty call herself forty; but if she can be young in spirit at forty, let her show that she is so.
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Thought is fugitive; the mind does not repeat itself; if you do not catch the whisperings of the oracle as they come to you, they are lost forever. You must-and this is absolutely essential-convince yourselves that what is offered you this very moment will never be offered again.
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If this is the end of the world, give me a fork and a knife.
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I haven't played a lot of wallflowers but I have played women who have been vulnerable.
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The happier a man, the more apt he is to tremble. In hearts exclusively tender, anxiety and jealousy are in exact proportion to happiness.
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If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.
