Harriet Ann Jacobs Quotes
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Among the lesser effects of quantum theory are gaping holes in old ideas about causality.
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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
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Well, we've made huge strides since the 1990 World Cup, USA '94, and obviously since '98. Unfortunately, those strides only register with the public once every four years.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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A fascinating breed, Old Etonians. Impeccable in their social skills and very portable - you can put them anywhere, and they are absolutely charming.
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I have a lot of vinyl, but I only buy old records on vinyl. Like secondhand. It's too expensive otherwise.
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I have a whole closet in my house that's dedicated just to jackets and coats, stuff that I've collected over the years.
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I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out.
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After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
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Shockingly, the Bidens donated under $1,000 to all charities combined every year for the ten years prior to 2008.
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I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there.
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'Paper Planes' was an accident. It wasn't a song we made for the masses. It took two years to get popular, and there were many fights about censoring the gunshot sounds.
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Are you a Democrat because you're a union member? Then why, after eight years of Bill Clinton, does some Chinese guy in Guangdong province have your job?
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I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.
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When you have somebody like a Donald Trump - he made no bones about trying to disprove Barack Obama's Americanism in trying to make him out to be some foreigner that was born in Kenya. I thought that to be very racist.
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Women are smart enough and strong enough to make their own health care decisions and should be able to make these decisions in private, consulting with their doctors and families as they choose.
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Though we live in a world that dreams of ending that always seems about to give in something that will not acknowledge conclusion insists that we forever begin.
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Music has to breathe and sweat. You have to play it live.
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When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.
