Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.
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In America, music is more tightly categorized.
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There are no soft or slothful ways to become sanctified to the point that we are prepared to live in the presence of the Savior. And there can be blessings in the burdens we bear. As a result of these struggles, our souls are stretched and our spirits are strengthened. Our character becomes more Christlike as we are tried and tested.
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I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.
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The bottom line is, I want us to rebound, defend, share the ball, play hard. That's all. Now if you can't do that, if that's not important enough to you, it's not on me.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.
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Education - much like law or medicine - should be a profession governed by professionals. Unfortunately, too many policies, even those that are well-intentioned, come from the top, leaving out those closest to the classroom, who have the greatest insight into how to provide a high-quality education for all students.
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There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
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Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like they know her.
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It's humbling and enthralling to know your legacy when you're alive.
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The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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I built the business exactly the way my mother built and ran her family. I wanted a replication of the big, happy family I grew up in. I wanted happy people having fun.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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I'd say it's okay to be political and to be a writer. Those streams can be separate, and they can be connected; for me, they're both. Life is political, and I'm interested in my community and in a lot of issues - some of them American, some global.
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Do you think that an eyeful of breast and buttocks will have me so besotted that I will forget all my principles? I'm a virgin, Mrs Farleigh. Not an innocent. I've never been an innocent.
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I did a lot of my school on set. Some years I went to a private school for a couple of hours, and then I'd always finish up with a tutor. I couldn't do full days, but I tried to maintain my friendships and some normalcy while doing a show.
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Of course, mothers were very conventional, everything was very conventional. You had to have approval.
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All the Chinese have to do is fly around the Moon and back, and they'll appear to have won the return to the Moon with humans. They could put one person on the surface of the Moon for one day and he'd be a national hero.
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We scarcely wish to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human.
