Vita Sackville-West Quotes
Things were not tragic for us then, because although we cared passionately we didn't care deeply.
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The defeat of Obamacare will come from the realization that the very idea of a government-administered health care system is absurd... and by people opting out of the system and developing workarounds.
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I live in Europe and care about democracy and sovereignty of nation states there.
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Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human.
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I'm not a pretty person. I don't like pretty, so I don't feel badly. Most of the world is not with me, but I don't care.
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You should always care about what you're eating because it's your body, and you should always want to eat healthy foods, but dieting tactics in Los Angeles are really confusing. There are so many different weird diets out there.
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The myopic obsession of the Tea Party with destroying health care reform and wounding the president has led Republicans astray.
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When we watch stories, we learn empathy, we learn compassion, and hopefully we achieve some sort of understanding.
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I wanted to make a film - and I've been wanting to do this for 16 years - about life in care, and bring it to the public's attention, because I had never seen anything, on TV or in the cinema, which said: 'This is how it feels to be a kid in care'.
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I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
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I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don't care if it's stereotyped.
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Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You're sharing your life with people. Of course, it's also an expression of your own need for approval and applause. Nothing wrong with that.
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You can express your generosity in ways that are virtually limitless. This was what I wanted to convey in 'Giving 2.0' - that whether you have $10 or $10 million to give, if you identify the right opportunities and make the most of your resources, your impact can be tremendous.
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I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience.
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I grew up taking care of the pigs. I love this country that, you know, somebody can do something like that.
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I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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I think my mom exposed me to the concept of using your voice for anything you care about.
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For a lot of people, Superman is and has always been America's hero. He stands for what we believe is the best within us: limitless strength tempered by compassion, that can bear adversity and emerge stronger on the other side. He stands for what we all feel we would like to be able to stand for, when standing is hardest.
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This generosity that has been offered to the United States says very much about the Venezuelan spirit.
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Don't ever let anyone pull you so low as to hate them. We must use the weapon of love. We must have the compassion and understanding for those who hate us. We must realize so many people are taught to hate us that they are not totally responsible for their hate. But we stand in life at midnight; we are always on the threshold of a new dawn.
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Treatment is not now available for almost half of those who would benefit from it. Yet we are willing to build more and more jails in which to isolate drug users even though at one-seventh the cost of building and maintaining jail space and pursuing, detaining, and prosecuting the drug user, we could subsidize commensurately effective medical care and psychological treatment.
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I really miss my family and my kids when I'm away from home.
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Manchester's got everything except a beach.
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You can disagree, but it`s a personal belittling attack which is beneath the dignity of the presidency.
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Things were not tragic for us then, because although we cared passionately we didn't care deeply.
