F. H. Bradley Quotes
It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
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Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
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If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
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I do constantly get to change the way I look, which is sort of an old-school idea of acting.
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We just here to do our job.
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I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.
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It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
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I used to come up with these crazy jobs to try and provoke my parents but they said, 'You can be anything you want.' So I was like, 'I want to be a garbage man' and they were like 'That's OK, we'll still love you!'
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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The fact that people put on 'Honey, I'm Good' to get their day started - that's really sweet.
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I went on an audition once for a show, and the feedback was to play an angry teen. My agent convinced me to try out. I was really bitter for a while, because it sucks when you don't get good scripts after working on good quality.
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Give Me a Turkish Army. I will Conquer world.
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It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
