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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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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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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Some Western powers admit that they have killed a large part of Jewish population in Europe and founded the occupied regime in order to put right the wrong they had committed.
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I have the foundation to write, and then I go back and do research, and some of that might influence the recrafting of certain scenes.
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We have the tools to be the No.1-ranked defense in the league.
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Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds
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An unresolved past erodes beauty in the present.
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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.
