Frances Burney Quotes
Unused to the situations in which I find myself, and embarrassed by the slightest difficulties, I seldom, till too late, discover how I ought to act.
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Why do we have 47 million people without health care? Because America has become about 'me'. What's happened to 'we' as a people? I believe in that and that resonates to most people.
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There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.
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Readers appreciate the truth. Why say, 'Some think a situation is a mess?' Based on my reporting, if a situation is a mess, then I say that. The truth is always what reporters tell each other when they get back to the newsroom.
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Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.
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I think there will be an increasing convergence between content and commerce, that it will be about following consumers instead of making consumers come to you, and I am especially excited about the various platforms that will allow more and more access to customers.
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I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choice for retention.
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Anything's possible in politics.
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If you've got cool nails, you wake up and you're like, 'Oh, I'm happy now.'
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I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days.
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Even after facing jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. courageously and boldly spoke out against racial inequality.
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I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.
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Things happen. And good things happen, and bad things happen. And I'm a person - I'm a believer that everything happens for a reason.
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We are the hollow menWe are the stuffed menLeaning togetherHeadpiece filled with straw.
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IBM Plus Reality Plus Humanism=Sociology
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Die Kunst an und für sich selbst ist edel; deßhalb fürchtet sich der Künstler nicht vor dem Gemeinen. Ja indem er es aufnimmt, ist es schon geadelt, und so sehen wir die größten Künstler mit Kühnheit ihr Majestätsrecht ausüben.
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She understood how much louder a cock can crow in his own farmyard than elsewhere.
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To obtain a mental picture of the distance to the nearest star, compared to the nearest planet, you must imagine a world in which the closest object to you is only five feet away - and there is nothing else to see until you have travelled a thousand miles.
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I was like, I don't know if I can hold that promise to wait until marriage to have sex because this guy at camp is really cute. Sex wasn't talked about in my home, but I was a very curious young girl.
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I make songs that I genuinely enjoy and love, and just put them out kind of freely and carelessly.
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I keep getting cast as this bad guy, and I don't know why.
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The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.
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A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints.
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The person who did most to give to analysis the generality and symmetry which are now its pride, was also the person who made mechanics analytical; I mean Euler.
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Unused to the situations in which I find myself, and embarrassed by the slightest difficulties, I seldom, till too late, discover how I ought to act.
