Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I don't think there's a perfect time to have kids. I think first you have to find the perfect person.
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Beneficial in theory, so-called free trade agreements far too often have been detrimental to the United States economy and the manufacturing sector that forms its central pillar.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
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If I could marry my motorcycle, I'd roll her right up to the altar.
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Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges - but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration.
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I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
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I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.'
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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I barely watch TV apart from the news. Most of it is rubbish. There's all this reality nonsense and dross. I think there's a market for a well-produced, well-written melodrama like 'Dallas.' It's pure entertainment.
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I always put on M.A.C. Prep and Primer before anything.
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In my opinion, faith helps in many contexts.
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I was at a book convention, in a cab. On one side of me was Arthur Schlesinger; on the other side was William Manchester - real heavyweights. All they were doing was asking me about Charles Manson. The only thing that enables me not to be bored is the people talking about it - they're so interested.
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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
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It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.
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In 1972, I got my first electric bass and started playing the kind of instrument I play now. I found that the majority of musicians couldn't bear that. They are not used to listening to the bass because they think the bass is in the background to support them.
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We must get rid of fossil fuels by developing injection systems for automobiles, which can run on bio-fuel.
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Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.
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You have to make peace with life.
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Abstract expression is so solid, so successful and recognizable, but there's a mystery about the artists that goes into it, a fetishism about the artists themselves and who they were.
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One could almost phrase the motto of our modern civilization thus: Science is my shepherd; I shall not want.
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The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.
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Father made the most popular cars in the world; I want to make the best.
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When an arguer argues dispassionately he thinks only of the argument.
