Minna Antrim Quotes
When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.
Minna Antrim
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I was doing a scene in a medical tent in 18th-century battle dress, pantaloons and a ripped shirt, and the guy from the crew kept asking me if I was OK, if I was too cold. I told him, 'Are you kidding? I'm from Wales!'
Owain Yeoman
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I like to escape; I like to write when I go on a walk - I'm kind of very fairy that way. I get inspired by the wind. Or when I daydream, that's when I write.
Imelda May
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
Victor Hugo
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If you fire people, you fire customers.
Ferdinand Piech
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In nature there are few sharp lines.
A. R. Ammons
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I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one of these vices is odious in itself, as because each of them separately and all of them together are utterly abhorrent in men making profession of a life dedicated to God.
Francesco Guicciardini
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Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.
Zac Posen
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Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.
F. Sionil Jose
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There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone's business.
Vikram Patel
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I believe that we can heal Rwanda - and our world - by healing one heart at a time.
Immaculee Ilibagiza
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I think in some ways, acting and writing are the same. You're getting inside the skin of someone else; you're creating their language and their actions. As a writer, you have to see the whole picture and the structure, and you have to understand every character.
Finn Wittrock
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Thank God I never lost that childlike innocence and the purity of vision and naivete. …That childlike innocence was most useful, because if I was a bit wiser, I wouldn't have been able to do anything, perhaps. So I'm glad I was not smart.
Imelda Marcos
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The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Heu quantum scelus est in viscera viscera condiingestoque avidum pinguescere corpore corpusalteriusque animans animantis vivere leto!Scilicet in tantis opibus, quas, optima matrum,terra parit, nil te nisi tristia mandere saevovulnera dente iuvat ritusque referre Cyclopum,nec, nisi perdideris alium, placare voraciset male morati poteris ieiunia ventris!
Ovid
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Years of love have been forgotIn the hatred of a minute.
Edgar Allan Poe
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'I think, George,' says Merion, ' the trouble is that you don't have a conflict model of society.'
Malcolm Bradbury
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He wanted to be who he was, not the person he would become if he lost the one trait that distinguished him from everybody else, no matter how perverse that decision seemed to others.
Iain Banks
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Only a thoughtless observer can deny that correspondences come into play between the world of modern technology and the archaic symbol-world of mythology.
Walter Benjamin
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The word 'feminist' is a word that discriminates, and I'm not into that. I don't think there has to be a separation in life in anything. [...] Labels are for other people to understand us, so for me, I know how I feel and I don't need to call myself a 'feminist' or 'not a feminist' because I know what my truth is.
Shailene Woodley
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It's a little unsettling, to put a mud caulk on and then have nothing, but it doesn't look like it took away any of his foot.
D. Wayne Lukas
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Rules of conduct which govern men in their relations to one another are being applied in an ever-increasing degree to nations. The battlefield as a place of settlement of disputes is gradually yielding to arbitral courts of justice.
William Howard Taft
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Thought without language, says Lavelle, would not be a purer thought; it would be no more than the intention to think. And his last book offers a theory of expressiveness which makes of expression not 'a faithful image of an already realized interior being, but the very means by which it is realized.'
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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Invest time in languages and intercultural awareness. Focus on becoming part of global citizenry. In exchange for the opportunity to participate everywhere/anywhere in the world you have the obligation to do something productive, which will improve the world. Develop a personal mission, a desire to leave personal legacy.
C. K. Prahalad
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When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.
Minna Antrim
