Virginia Woolf Quotes
There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.... the essay must be pure--pure like water or pure like wine, but pure from dullness, deadness, and deposits of extraneous matter.
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I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.
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The most important thing that everybody can do, aside from building and keeping your network strong, is make good choices about your health.
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I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.
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I conceived the original 'Deus Ex' and was the project director on the game.
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Well, you know, I - again, even in the context of BP, I wonder about this government's priorities. The federal government's top priority right now should be the cleanup. And BP certainly has done so many things wrong. They need to be held to account.
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I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
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Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
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I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.
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My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.
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I believe in the future, and to be a good investor, you have to believe in the future.
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I'm not a skinny girl. I push it. I'm at the limit of chubbiness at all times, but I'm happy at all times.
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Because these show are live, script pages are being switched during the program and new commercial teases might be yelled in your ear with just enough time to scribble them on scrap paper before reading them.
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The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act - and if necessary, to suffer and die - for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied.
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Autonomy was shopped to us. We looked at the price and thought it was absurdly high.
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I always wanted to tell the story of how Pearl Jam is the story of lightning striking twice. As well as being the flipside of the classic rock tale where great promise ends in tragedy. This is where tragedy begins great promise.
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Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.
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'SNL' is part of my history. I got on the show as a kid. That's the show I got known from.
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People have decided that career politicians may be part of the problem, not part of the solution.
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The manifestation of the Divinity must be understood to be in greater degree in those who are honoured, respected, and obeyed by a large following, than in those who have gained no such influence.
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Donald Trump and Senator Cruz have occasional Manichean tendencies.
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My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.
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We do not become righteous by doing righteous deeds but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds.
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More than a billion people lack adequate access to clean water.
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There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.... the essay must be pure--pure like water or pure like wine, but pure from dullness, deadness, and deposits of extraneous matter.
