Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
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I don't like allegories.
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
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I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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Midi is my hobby.
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Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
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The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.
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I can't really recall the first time I was noticed by a producer but the first time I was on television was doing Daytime for Another World, which I started in December '75 and went until December '76.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
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I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.
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Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
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It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.
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People will see me at Chelsea the way I am and judge me the way they want to.
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My successor, John Kerry, and President Obama got a deal that put a lid on Iran's nuclear program without firing a single shot. That's diplomacy. That's coalition-building. That's working with other nations.
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The hardest thing is to write about people. First and foremost, you have to encounter their humanity. That is the only way you can make them live as characters on the page.
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Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable.
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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
