Virginia Woolf Quotes
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
Quotes to Explore
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You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.
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Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911.
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
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As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.
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Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
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Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.
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The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.
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When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
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I was 19, and I thought I should settle down and get a real job, and what was I doing living this dream world?
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.
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I never had planned for my life and my career.
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You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to help people.
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Larry Merchant's just a commentator. He don't know nothing about boxing.
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If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.
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Spur not an unbroken horse; put not your plowshare too deep into new land.
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I worked hard to get where I am. And I started with nothing.
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I was given baby doll toys myself, and they proved a stark reminder that my life was expected to revolve around childbearing - just as my mom's had before me, and her mom's had before her.
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I often use dropped D or C - I even go all the way down to A. What can be really cool is drop a guitar down there and have the rest of the band continue in standard tuning. It gives it a lot of power and texture.
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I was skeptical about doing Texas Chainsaw at first because it's such a cult classic. I'd seen some of the sequels and was not a fan of those.
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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
