Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
Frances Burney
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
Jack Keane
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My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
Patrice Leconte
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
Ira Sachs
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I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland.
Mahmoud Abbas
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Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
Ian Watson
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My wife watches me like a hawk.
Carl Icahn
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To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.
J. G. Ballard
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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
Baruch Spinoza
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Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.
Patrick Kavanagh
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Well, I always think the worst things are going to happen here, because I'm - basically inside, I'm a bad person, and so the bad kind of takes over.
Larry David
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I just would use any instrument known to man in any combination as long as it describes an emotion.
Yiannis Chryssomallis
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The first novel I wrote, 'The White House Mess,' was a comic novel. It came out in 1986. It was a parody in the form of a White House memoir.
Christopher Buckley
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I was raised in a community of Christian orthodoxy that had traveled with my parents to Los Angeles when they moved there for my father's job.
Margaret Stohl
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Michelle, I love you. The other night, I think the entire country saw just how lucky I am. Malia and Sasha, you make me so proud…but don't get any ideas, you're still going to class tomorrow. And Joe Biden, thank you for being the best Vice President I could ever hope for.
Barack Obama
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As far as I know, no one in the Kaufman or Hart clan was the basis for anyone in the play. I think we all wish we had a Grandpa, Penny, and Mr. De Pinna in our families.
Chris Hart
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And you wish to be a poet; and you wish to be a lover.
Virginia Woolf