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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Nothing ain't worth nothing but it's free.
Kris Kristofferson
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I am single, I don't drink. It's kind of hard to get a woman buzzed when you don't drink. You'll be like, "Yeah, I'll have a glass of water, you want a shot of Jäger? You want eight of 'em?"
Jim Gaffigan
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Never mind... Don't cry... I will catch him again... Stepping to the front of the stage and addressing the audience. If any of you should find him, would you be so very kind as to give him back to us?... We need him for our happiness, later on...
Maurice Maeterlinck
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I have been involved in music since 1972 when I started managing two artists from The Jimi Hendrix Band. My family has been involved in music for years, so it's kind of in my blood. I just wish I could sing!
Earl Monroe
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My brother died when he was 19, so a part of me indulges and thinks that some part of him that made him uniquely him is out there, on another plane. So inventing the fictional afterlife in 'Sing, Unburied, Sing' was a way of making that wish real.
Jesmyn Ward
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And you wish to be a poet; and you wish to be a lover.
Virginia Woolf
