Aino Kallas Quotes
Her hair was copper-red, like the grass of the shore on which the spring floods leave their rust; but her eyes were dark, like the pools among the marshes, drawing the beholder down into their depths, and their surface was still as bog-water.
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I really don't know life without wrestling.
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I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
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When I approach guys in certain situations and talk to them about Christ, they know that I'm speaking to them in a way that's real.
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Patients are becoming aware that they're being taken for a ride by big pharma companies. They charge high prices and have never cared for India's healthcare. There are 23 million cases of cancer every year and India has a fair share of that.
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I'm aware that beyond my own need to find a personal balance, I should be sending a signal to society as women's minister about the importance of work-life balance.
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Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.
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When I was a kid, we all knew who Niki Lauda was. He was a hero, a living legend in Germany. Everybody knows him.
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One year you go in for auditions, and everybody thinks you're the queen of comedy, and the next year, you're so 'yesterday,' and it's not because you've done anything, or your ability has changed; you haven't been in work because you've been putting on weight and then trying to lose it.
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I hate to travel with stuff.
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I like going into nature and that's where I'm happiest.
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I like to think of ideas as potential energy. They're really wonderful, but nothing will happen until we risk putting them into action.
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When you tour, you regain the music and the connection with the audience.
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I have never thought where I will go, or forced any targets on myself.
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Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune.
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The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.
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We must live fully in order to secrete the substance of our work, but we have to work alone.
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Lir chiseled at the stone. It would take a month to make a perceptible impression on it. He had a few hours. Work harder, then.
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If that was on my road the council would be like 'Get that down, its a deathtrap!'
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He took particular delight in neutralizing those who desperately needed to be neutralized, those overblown, self-important, arrogant half-wits who were always running about dictating behavior, morals, and theology to everyone else. And he never looked back.
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We need to redefine what a hero looks like.
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Back in England, a girl with thick black hair, dusky skin and big brown eyes will turn heads. It is vice versa in India.
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I find it hugely exciting to be dealing with another writer's language.
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I think that's something people need to convey because you see all these celebrity moms out there, and the perception is they can do it all, but they have sooo much help. And it's kind of an unfair image to project for many women, because it is really hard, and if you have help, you should indicate you have help.
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Her hair was copper-red, like the grass of the shore on which the spring floods leave their rust; but her eyes were dark, like the pools among the marshes, drawing the beholder down into their depths, and their surface was still as bog-water.
