Virginia Woolf Quotes
Nothing shakes my opinion of a book. Nothing -- nothing. Only perhaps if it's the book of a young person -- or of a friend -- no, even so, I think myself infallible.
Quotes to Explore
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The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.
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When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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I'm called a terrorist in the Arab media still today.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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I've always tried to be fair, even-handed, not an advocate for any group.
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Power can shape 'truth,' but not forever.
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The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale.
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I always want to become better. If never being satisfied is a problem, then I have it. At least it's a good problem.
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The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
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Kirmizi biber has a sweet aroma and can vary in spiciness.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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Anyone who tells you they don't need to rewrite, they're usually the ones who need it worst.
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These Millennials are volunteering more; they're smarter than ever.
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I get to play with all these different players who don't necessarily approach music always the same way that I might. So I learn a lot.
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This book is intended for use in English courses in which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature. It aims to give in a brief space the principal requirements of plain English style. It aims to lighten the task of instructor and student by concentrating attention (in Chapters II and III) on a few essentials, the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated. The numbers of the sections may be used as references in correcting manuscript.
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I've never wanted to be famous. That has never been a part of any dream. I do remember being little and thinking I might want to be a singer. But not a famous singer - just, like, a singer.
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Nothing shakes my opinion of a book. Nothing -- nothing. Only perhaps if it's the book of a young person -- or of a friend -- no, even so, I think myself infallible.
