Vita Sackville-West Quotes
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Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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My most cherished desire is to help our women come out of their routine chores and infuse in them the indefatigable spirit of adventure.
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Saving Milly was a break from this effort because I felt that it was time to be part of something that could shed light on a disease everyone feels they know, when most know so little.
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
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The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.
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The Unites States used to use law enforcement to aggressively target North Korea illicit activities - counterfeiting U.S. currency, drug-running, counterfeit cigarettes and pharmaceuticals - until diplomacy gutted those efforts. The effort should be reinvigorated.
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I usually have two or three books on the go at the same time. If I'm in different moods, I want to read different things.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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I sold a bunch of stuff. I sold Omaha Steaks, vacation packages... the worst, though, was Time Life Books, because no one wants Time Life Books. No one wants an 'Encyclopedia Brittanica' showing up at their house.
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War is the continuation of politics by other means.
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The difference was you worked for Nixon, and with Ford.
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I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.
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Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.
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Panama is a country that's been dealing with issues of identity since its very birth. It was born on Wall Street. It was born out of engineering construction. It was the canal. Because of the canal, the country was born, so the country has been divided into pro-canal and against-canal people for so long.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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I'm trying to have a family and a career.
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I had tried my best to bring in representatives of the Indian community, but fear for the safety of their families has been a real inhibiting factor.
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Drag is a little scary, especially for a gay man who's not comfortable with his feminine side.
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Me a playboy?! You must be joking. But playing something like Robert Redford's role in Indecent Proposal would be a pleasant surprise.
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It is better to believe than to disbelieve; in doing you bring everything to the realm of possibility.
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Not seeing is half-believing.
