Kate Chopin Quotes
Looking at his wife as one looks at a valuable piece of property which has suffered some damage.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
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Anything that's made by humans is about humans, whether it's about gods or aliens or anything; it's about some sort of expressive nature about us.
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I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.
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When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
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I owe everything to France.
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Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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I have to get a workout in in the morning. Once my day starts, I'll have the best intentions, and it still won't happen: one of the kids needs to be picked up somewhere, I have to hop on a conference call, or I'm just tired. So I get it done in the A.M.
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Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.
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In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.
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When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that whatever is happening in your personal life is outside the room, as it were. But maybe that's just the way you have to talk to yourself to make it possible.
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Every actor looks all his life for a part that will combine his talents with his personality... 'The Odd Couple' was mine. That was the plutonium I needed. It all started happening after that.
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Any chance to get out and play live for some people and get out of the studio is nice.
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I think backwards. "This was beautiful." Instead of forward.
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A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal.
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No operation of addition or subtraction gives rise to diversity, but all are equally related to their pair of Terms, or Elements.
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My parents used to park us kids at the public library in downtown Honolulu every Saturday. They'd leave us there at 8 A.M. and pick us up at 4 P.M. - so between those hours, you'd better find something to do! I sat upstairs in the picture room and went through opera, ballet, and theater books. I loved the photographs of people wearing elaborate makeup and costumes - they really pulled at me inside. I was in that library every week for years, until I was about 13. I had a rich interior life, because I didn't have much of a social life.
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Looking at his wife as one looks at a valuable piece of property which has suffered some damage.
