Northrop Frye Quotes
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Northrop Frye
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I'm obviously not an advocate of Christian America or a simplistic view of America as 'a city on a hill.'
Os Guinness
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I always think of it in terms of music. You're not always going to be a huge rock star in music, but musicians can play until the day they die. With sports, it's different. You can't always do it until the very end, and that's a hard reality of sports.
Daniel Bryan
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The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
Samuel Johnson
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I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.
Tanith Lee
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Being first lady is a full-time job. Betty Ford worked full time and should have received a salary. Michelle Obama works full time and should be paid.
Karen DeCrow
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They offered me one cover about 10 years ago, and I said, no, I can't do it. I'm happy to cover up now.
Ursula Andress
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I'm very interested in getting inside the heads of people society discards, people on the fringe, especially immigrant kids. We dismiss them without getting into details of who they are.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
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Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.
W. S. Merwin
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When the stocks go up, the cocks go up!
Xaviera Hollander
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It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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My own opinion is that youthfulness of feeling is retained, as is youthfulness of appearance, by constant use of the intellect.
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
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I don't think pain is a prerequisite for growth, but on the other hand, most of us choose very painful ways to learn.
Marianne Williamson
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In one survey, respondents listed Princeton as one of the country’s top ten law schools. The problem? Princeton doesn’t have a law school.
Alexandra Robbins
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Always play for the worst case scenario..If it is the best you'll win anyway
David Trott
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[I]f we assume a liberty interest but nevertheless say that, even assuming a liberty interest, a state can prohibit it entirely, that would be rather a conundrum.
William Rehnquist
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Ylli, Agron and Mehmet were never given a fair and public trial, an opportunity to defend themselves, or any semblance of due process. Their post-conflict, extrajudicial killing was cold-blooded murder.
Avis Bohlen
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For some of the kids on my bus, the deviation is so small: an imperfection in the DNA strand so tiny that an electron microscope cranked to 100,000X magnification shows but a shadow. A knot of rogue atoms. Weightless. A body forms itself around that anomaly, and next comes a life, and the lives of that person's family.
Craig Davidson
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Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.
Northrop Frye
