Nancy Mitford Quotes
There are worse things than poverty, though I can't for the moment remember what they are.
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is the basic value of all the physical expressions. The entire creation is the expression of consciousness.
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Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.
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When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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As a competitor, I want to continue to keep turning the chapters and keep challenging myself.
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You can stroke people with words.
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Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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I like that Barack got that job.
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'Sicario' was successful, but it was successful because Denis and the producers were, you know, they were very lean. It was very lean filmmaking.
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I grew up in a strongly socialist family. While I was at school, I worked in party politics and with organizations like the Anti-Nazi League. Everywhere I saw it, I fought prejudice.
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If a writer doesn't do anything but give a new word to his language and, from there, maybe to other languages, I think that writer redefines the world.
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I think it's a common misconception in the civilian community that the military community is filled with just drills and discipline and pain. They forget that these are humans who are in an abnormal situation.
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We don't have to sit by while Trump uses his enormous global platform to undermine our national security. We would love to be able to actually force Twitter's hand to live up to its rules, explicitly forbidding hate speech and encouraging violence.
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People who work every day are kind of scared of things they don't understand.
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The gospel music and doo-wop is what has informed me personally.
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People come up to me sometimes and ask for a picture but don't even say hello. They sort of forget that I'm a person.
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I was taught you don't tell your secrets to strangers - certainly not secrets that expose error, weakness, failure. My generation, like its predecessors, was taught that since our achievements received little notice or credit from white America, we were not to discuss our faults, lapses, or uncertainties in public.
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Law breaking, graffiti artist, dumb jock that I am, I'm pretty socially conscious.
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...I crave a shawl." He was tense with anger but his hands remained gentle at her waist. He said, "I can make you a shawl." She cocked her head. "You knit? Well. That's an unusual accomplishment in a soldier.
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I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits.
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By now, with all our modern technology, there should be no poverty left on earth.
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There are worse things than poverty, though I can't for the moment remember what they are.
