Virginia Woolf Quotes
I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.
Quotes to Explore
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But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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All my books are optimistic!
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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I think what has helped me is that I've never thought of myself as a child star. If you think of yourself like that, you might have problems!
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Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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It's totally viable to envisage a million Jews living in Judea and Samaria.
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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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I admire all people who are trying to be a good power in this chaotic world.
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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
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For us Indians, I don't think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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I love Canada. Canada is a great neighbour. Canada has been a great friend and neighbor for many, many years.
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From the first instant I met her, I wanted to be Nora Ephron. I just really wanted to please her.
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The fumes are coming out, but we're still running. We have the pedal to the medal all the way down. I'm not going to let anyone slow down. We need three more wins. There's no way we can settle for less.
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This disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and powerful, and to despise or, at least, neglect persons of poor and mean conditions, though necessary both to establish and to maintain the distinction of ranks and the order of society, is, at the same time, the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.
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I like to be an idea person. I like to pull different people together and find new talent.
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Forty-years-old these days is the beginning of people's lives. I've found myself, I'm confident, I'm mature, I've been through some stuff, I'm ready to write my book.
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I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.
