Vita Sackville-West Quotes
How subtle is the relationship between the traveler and his luggage! He knows, as no one else knows, its idiosyncrasies, its contents ... and always some small nuisance which he wishes he had not brought; had known, indeed, before starting that he would regret it, but brought it all the same.
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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I think shoppers are looking for newness and creativity. Look at C. Wonder, for instance. They're dancing in our stores. We don't believe in retail like retail was done in the past. We believe in disrupting the whole environment, offering them amazing value in an amazing package of fun, excitement and whimsy.
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
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If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.
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I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.
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I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.
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How often do we see a Muslim woman who is intelligent and independent, and has a voice of her own and is career-driven, on American TV?
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.
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There's a lot of judgement that can come from outside sometimes, and there's media scrutiny that is placed on a lot of women in the public eye, and I just couldn't care less. I really couldn't care less.
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At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.
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I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the characters, with their plights and their issues.
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Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
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I began to ask two questions while I was reading a book that excited me: not only what was going to happen next, but how is this done? How is it that these words on the page make me feel the way I'm feeling? This is the line of inquiry that I think happens in a child's mind, without him even knowing he has aspirations as a writer.
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In fact, if you have a crime committed against you, and you go to have hypnosis, you can't testify. Because there's no way to test what is real, what's fact, what's fantasy.
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To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'.
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I hated, when I was a kid, being told that 'Black people don't do that.' And the white kids at school didn't accept me because I was black, and the black kids in my neighborhood didn't accept me because they thought I thought I was white.
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A woman hath nine lives like a cat.
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How subtle is the relationship between the traveler and his luggage! He knows, as no one else knows, its idiosyncrasies, its contents ... and always some small nuisance which he wishes he had not brought; had known, indeed, before starting that he would regret it, but brought it all the same.
