Virginia Woolf Quotes
One cannot bring children into a world like this. One cannot perpetuate suffering, or increase the breed of these lustful animals, who have no lasting emotions, but only whims and vanities, eddying them now this way, now that.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.
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I love Coco de Mer.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly star struck, and not having the courage to say, 'Hello.'
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Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.
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My father became the Mayor of Indian Wells, California, a tony desert enclave of rich, conservative Republicans.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.
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My biggest moment was winning the World Series because everyone in my town was able to feel he was a world champion.
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She had little doubt that whatever happened to her on this drifting ship was of scant interest to a God who could allow her to reach this sorry state in the first place.
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The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.
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One cannot bring children into a world like this. One cannot perpetuate suffering, or increase the breed of these lustful animals, who have no lasting emotions, but only whims and vanities, eddying them now this way, now that.
