Virginia Woolf Quotes
There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.
Quotes to Explore
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I always wanted to do creative things, but I was really interested in entrepreneurship. My family comes from a very entrepreneurial culture, so business was always something I was interested in.
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
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To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.
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In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line. But Edsel sales plummeted and my father fell into bankruptcy. I watched him struggle; working long hours to protect us from poverty.
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I can't seem to help writing love stories. I definitely crave romance. When I was young, I craved romance in books, but I didn't want to read just romance - love plays such a big part in our lives, it shouldn't be cut out and restricted to its own fiction.
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The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.
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I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night.
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Sharing is the essence of social media.
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An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
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It's mad what each generation vilifies. It's not necessarily to do with logic.
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Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
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I grew up playing hockey and some football, and I always think about the first time you walk into the locker room on a new team. The cliques are looking at you funny, and you make one friend, but then they're trying to stab you in the back.
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If I was doing 'The Hunt' constantly, I would get very old, very fast.
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Zach Galifianakis is hilarious. I worked with him on a pilot before; he's hilarious and such a nice person.
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I don't like to look typical.
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Being Somali, being Muslim, it's always something I've been very proud of.
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I literally left school and went straight into music via art college for a year, and I've been so involved in my job of writing songs that the more actively involved part became channeled into standing on the stage and saying things that way.
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We all are rich and ignore the buried fact of accumulated wisdom.
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If true happiness depended on the thoughts of man, then all philosophers and deep thinkers would be filled to overflowing with it.
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We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention.
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Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.
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'We're not outside the world, yoz. You know? We are the world. We're its language. So we live and it lives. You see?'
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There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.
