Susanna Clarke (Susanna Mary Clarke) Quotes
What nobility of feeling! To sacrifice your own pleasure to preserve the comfort of others! It is a thing, I confess, that would never occur to me.
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I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids!
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I wouldn't compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don't feel like I am like any of them. Maybe stories are cool but my story is different from most people's story. I don't like to compare myself to other people, I like to just be me.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
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He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
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Basically, me and Ed Sheeran are kind of Twitter friends – well, I say that. He probably just thinks I'm weird.
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As President Bush just said, a great nation doesn’t shy from the truth. It strengthens us. It emboldens us. It should fortify us.
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I hate to lose more than I like to win.
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So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.
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A tinker’s debt is always paid:Once for any simple trade.Twice for freely given aid.Thrice for any insult made.
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'Weekend Update' can be presented as a full 20-minute sketch, and there's a lot of room there.
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I am from Brooklyn, NY, so we could not have many pets, but I always had at least two dogs.
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The idea of 'Yes on Broadway' has come up. It would reflect the history of Yes.
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We should look for ways to expedite generic drug approvals, particularly for products that have a long history of being safe and effective.
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Spontaneity has its time and its place.
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He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.
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I am very proud of my service, and by law, I am defined as a combat veteran.
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Our teachers were absolute tyrants. They had no sympathy with youth; their one object was to stuff our brains and turn us into erudite apes like themselves. If any pupil showed the slightest trace of originality, they persecuted him relentlessly, and the only model pupils whom I have ever got to know have all been failures in after-life.
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It's time to shake the rust off America's foreign policy.
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You have to sacrifice sometimes. There are so many things in life you might want to do, but you have to know when to let go.
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It's interesting, because I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My second album was named after my mom because I felt like I learned all my creative talents I learned from her. All the survival stuff, too. And then the next album is 'Maya,' which is not my real name. It's fake.
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The feigning sleeper can delude others - he cannot delude himself. The false mystic, unfortunately, can delude both others and himself.
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What nobility of feeling! To sacrifice your own pleasure to preserve the comfort of others! It is a thing, I confess, that would never occur to me.
