Vita Sackville-West Quotes
I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all.
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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If 'Airplane!' comes on, it's like a comfort film. You can always guarantee a laugh watching that movie.
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I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.
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In most movies there is a Prince Charming who rides up and saves the girl.
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I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
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Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.
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I cook everything from Italian to Cajun food. I have now mastered the roux for gumbo. I love cooking.
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Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.
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The long term sustainable growth in job creation comes from the private sector. It is important that the Obama administration partner with the private sector and come up with the best possible ideas for creating jobs.
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I love the feeling that you get when you can really laugh with a man and be natural and not always think that there's a sexual element going on. For me, flirting with a man means making fun of myself and trying to open myself and be very unpretentious.
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It sounds depressing, but I think when you truly love someone, you'll never stop loving them.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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Those who said I'm not an out-and-out goal-scorer are probably right. I always feel I could score more.
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I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.
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The truth we are teaching is that every contribution in the history of the planet came from blonde people. It's not true, and it's destructive, and people are getting killed long term as a result. People don't believe that we deserve it.
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What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning, with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?
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If there is something I am arguing, it is a critique of science. Science has consistently denied the existence of consciousness other than human. Only in the last 20 years do we have acknowledgement of animal feeling or culture or experience.
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Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices, That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open, and show riches Ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked, I cried to dream again.
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I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all.
