Lady Gregory Quotes
When I was a child and came with my elders to Galway for their salmon fishing in the river that rushes past the gaol, I used to look with awe at the window where men were hung, and the dark, closed gate.
Quotes to Explore
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
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I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.
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A 2014 survey found that 74% of law-enforcement agencies reported antigovernment extremism as one of the top terrorist threats. Just 3% of those agencies viewed the threat from Muslim extremists as severe.
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I'm really about my family and really proud of being a Carter.
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You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.
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I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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Forgiveness is a very personal and intimate thing. Forgiveness is not something that you can speak for others because it includes not only your desire and will, your reflection and intellect, but also your emotions.
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It is true that when there's a drone attack, those - that the - the terrorists are killed, it's true. But 500 and 5,000 more people rises against it, and more terrorism occurs, and more - more bomb blasts occurs.
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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Paris can be like the land of the Lotus-Eaters. You can't leave.
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Ford was warm and friendly. He wouldn't embarrass a Cabinet member.
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The ultimate mystery is one's own self.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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When I was in my 20s, I wanted to be tough. I discovered that I didn't want to be the woman I was raised to be - a good, traditional wife. When I went out in the world to find a husband, I found that husbands weren't ready to accept the kind of woman I was going to be.
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L.A. doesn't have any big personality to me; it's not inspiring.
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When you mature, you also get more secure about yourself. You see things differently.
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I have no message or answers to social questions.
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I do think that there is such a thing as human nature, and that the things that we have in common are perhaps greater than the things that divide us.
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When I was a child and came with my elders to Galway for their salmon fishing in the river that rushes past the gaol, I used to look with awe at the window where men were hung, and the dark, closed gate.
