Frances Burney Quotes
A private ball this was called...but Lord! my dear Sir, I believe I saw half the world!
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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Tom Brokaw was never young.
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Jesus was not denying the legitimacy of biblical law. On the contrary, He was affirming biblical law. We love God first; God commands us to keep His word; therefore, we must enforce the law on ourselves.
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I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.
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Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal.
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I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
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Everything I want to do in my life, I want to be at the top.
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My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.
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Jack Nicklaus is the greatest winner I've ever seen.
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To film in water is three times harder than just on land.
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Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.
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I believe that if you are elderly, physically or mentally handicapped we have an obligation too you, but if you are able-bodied, you should be working.
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Many people and companies only have one goal: money, money, and more money. Greed is ok when you let others profit from it, but greed for oneself is bad, it makes you ill.
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I know the Communists. I know them because some of them are my children…
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I really believe, when you come out of hiding, in whatever way you're hiding, you get to go out into the sunlight.
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A private ball this was called...but Lord! my dear Sir, I believe I saw half the world!
