Virginia Woolf Quotes
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
Tamsin Greig -
The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally.
J. Philippe Rushton -
I've always dreamed of having a large family.
Lance Bass NSYNC -
I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
Abigail Adams -
Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again.
Harold E. Hughes -
I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
Candice Bergen
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When I had cancer - of the colon first, followed by breast cancer and a mastectomy - my motto used to be 'Drips by day, Prada by night.' I felt that I had to grasp it in the same way as you'd take on any challenge.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova -
You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
Irwin Shaw -
Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
Lady Bird Johnson -
Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.
Eddie Marsan -
The guys in my band are good friends on and off the stage. The band members that I have now is probably the best band that I have ever had.
Ace Frehley Kiss
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Everyone's past is locked up in their recipes - the past of an individual and the past of a nation as well.
Laura Esquivel -
Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
Gavin Newsom -
The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
Nancy Gibbs -
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Many of the best films made about war have come out after the wars have ended. People need a period of time to reflect on them.
Irwin Winkler -
I often feel that when people have affairs, it has more to do with something they're searching for in themselves than anything else.
Laila Robins
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Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner. It's in any game that you're in - a business game or whatever - you can't get complacent.
Venus Williams -
To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting.
Peter Stormare -
The easiest songs to write are pure fiction. There is no limit to how you can tell the story. I find it difficult when I'm replaying an event through a song.
Jason Mraz -
When I started the business, only banks operated at airports, only banks issued travellers' cheques, only banks issued international payments, only banks serviced their own branch networks.
Lloyd Dorfman -
History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men.
Virginia Woolf