J. G. Holland Quotes
I have learned that to do one's next duty is to take a step toward all that is worth possessing.
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Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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We live a happy life, and we don't take anything too seriously.
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If you don't feel good in it, don't wear it. Because it'll never look good. Any hesitation in the fitting room and just walk away.
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I thought I would be Sheena of the Jungle as a little girl.
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Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.
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It'll certainly give the pigeons something to do.
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I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating. Every time I see something beautiful, I not only want to return to it, but it makes me want to see other beautiful things. I know I'm not going to get to all the places I want to go.
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I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.
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What I love best in life is new starts.
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If I am elected president, every militant on the face of the planet will know, if you go and join ISIS, if you wage jihad on the United States of America, if you attempt to murder innocent Americans you are signing your death warrant.
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The women themselves say they're far more likely to care about flexibility. The men say, 'I'm far more likely to care about money.'
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I don't get my inspiration from a specific source. It's more like if you listen to a good tune, it gives me inspiration to write a better tune.
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In terms of politics, I just look at people's policies, and sometimes I agree with something, sometimes I won't.
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People say free trade causes dislocation. In actual fact, it's the lowering of trade barriers that causes the dislocation.
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People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
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Modern capitalism seeks to assure us that it operates according to the principles of free creativity, endless development and diversity. It glosses over its other side in order to hide the reality that millions of people are enslaved by an all-powerful and fantastically stable norm of production. We want to reveal this lie.
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Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.
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There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.
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There is a trend in child-rearing that I find abhorrent: "Whatever the kids want to do is fine." For me, the classic example of this is when someone has a visitor and says, "Go kiss Aunt Gertrude," and Aunt Gertrude says, "She doesn't have to kiss me if she doesn't want to." Well, I think that's wrong.
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I think you can judge a man by the size of what offends him.
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If the infinite had no me, then me would be its limit. It would not be the infinite, therefore it would not be.
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I have learned that to do one's next duty is to take a step toward all that is worth possessing.
