Miguel de Unamuno Quotes
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I keep returning to the central question facing over-50 women as we move into our Second Adulthood. What are our goals for this stage in our lives?
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It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regulations, but for example the way that funds are distributed around the states these days, you are positively penalised if you actually want to have say a lower payroll tax or sort of conditions.
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I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.
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I believe it's easier to be an actor. Somehow, interviewing seems to be intrusive on people's lives.
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It wasn't my dream to make music. It was just something I ended up doing, and no one said stop.
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In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
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I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.
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I am proud of my kids and happy to brag about their achievements. Their success has been an immense source of happiness for me.
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I'm a closet outdoorsy athletic enthusiast, and I would love to do a rafting and hiking trip someday and maybe sleep in a treehouse and bathe in a chilly winding river.
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Not that there is anything wrong with confessional songwriting, there are plenty of people that do that I admire. I think it is great, it just isn't how I do things.
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I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. That's when you most need God, and God cannot control what man does.
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Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups.
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I was a prosecutor for many years, I'm a crime victim myself, and I've tried so many cases I don't even know how many anymore.
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Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.
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Government subsidies can be critically analyzed according to a simple principle: You are smarter than the government, so when the government pays you to do something you wouldn't do on your own, it is almost always paying you to do something stupid.
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When a young woman tells me that she wants to become and actor, I say, 'No, be a writer. Or go to business school and learn how to run a studio.' The only real change will come from behind the scenes.
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The solitude of women's minds is regrettable, I said to myself, it's a waste to be separated from each other without procedures, without tradition.
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I don't think that science is complete at all. We don't understand everything, and one can see, within science itself, there are many inconsistencies. We just have to accept that we don't understand.
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Wit can be beautiful, because it expresses and distills an idea.
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Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.
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Hermes scarf designers can be found in places from Poland to Japan, not to mention the U.S. post-office sorting room in Waco, Texas. Kermit Oliver, a longtime postal employee, has designed more than a dozen Hermes scarves.
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Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.
