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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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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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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It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.
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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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I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two - are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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I grew up in a small town in West Virginia called Kenova. It's the city where the plane crashed from Marshall University. I watched the mountain burn, and my cousins were the volunteer firemen. I was 6 years old at the time.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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Horses are in our DNA. We used them way before cars for commuting.
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A private ball this was called...but Lord! my dear Sir, I believe I saw half the world!
