Virginia Woolf Quotes
... the public and the private worlds are inseparably connected ... the tyrannies and servilities of the one are the tyrannies and servilities of the other.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
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The science of life is changing hearts and minds.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
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Focus on remedies, not faults.
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Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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The minute I saw the front page of the 'Daily Telegraph' - me with my arm around the latest 'X-Factor' contestant - I realised I'd gone into a new realm.
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I love soccer. My father is from Argentina and my mother is from El Salvador. I grew up watching Argentinean soccer. I get really worked up watching soccer. It's in my blood.
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Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
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There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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My main point is to be funny; if I can slip a message in there, fine.
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The global response to global terrorism must not endanger fundamental human rights and freedoms.
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Travers's Mary Poppins was a natural phenomena, ancient as mountain ranges, on first-name terms with the primal powers of the universe, adored and respected by everything that saw the world as it was. And she was a mystery. … philosophically, I suspect now, the universe of Mary Poppins underpins all my writing …
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You have nothing and you would give me a world. I owe you a world.
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So how critics will perceive your film or your work, or whether your movie is going to make $100 million at the box office, or whether you are going to be winning any awards - well, you have no control over that.
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Is there not a sort of remorse that precedes sin? Was it remorse at the very fact that I existed?
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... the public and the private worlds are inseparably connected ... the tyrannies and servilities of the one are the tyrannies and servilities of the other.
