Olive Schreiner Quotes
There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them.Olive Schreiner
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I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.
F. Gary Gray -
There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
Felicia Day -
I'm an actor in between jobs right now, so I kind of live the life of a 7-year old.
Aaron Yoo -
Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
Ted Engstrom -
While marriage is historically associated with dire obligation and clipped wings, I've found that it actually liberates you to take on adventure and achieve your dreams. I like to call my husband 'my person.' Find your 'person,' and you can do anything!
Lake Bell -
It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
Walter O'Brien
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Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
Samuel Johnson -
Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.
Cameron Bright -
I was with the CIA for only three years. I worked in the Directorate of Operations, which is now called the National Clandestine Service. It's the part of the organization where the spies live. I didn't have much experience beyond the training.
Barry Eisler -
The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
Zola Jesus -
Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
Ignatius of Antioch -
The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.
Victor Garber -
All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!
Yoko Ono -
Indeed, the existence of class, of social hierarchy, is as old as man himself. It prevails in the jungle where strength determines hierarchy; among men, it has also been savagely the same, whereby rulers vested with power through personal combat, or through lineal heritage as in the case of royalty, ravage their subjects.
F. Sionil Jose -
My Emmy is in my china closet. People don't really look at it, though.
Tammy Blanchard -
My mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She's a U.S. citizen, so I'm a U.S. citizen.
Ted Cruz -
Ghost! I miss him! Is that weird? I miss him even though I invented him. I feel a lot of tenderness toward him. I don't write a lot of stuff that is sad or that is tender and affectionate, so that has a very special place in my heart.
Mallory Ortberg
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I'm not a sexy guy. I went to a hooker. I dropped my pants. She dropped her price.
Jack Roy -
When the throne of God is overturned, the rebel realizes that it is now his own responsibility to create the justice, order, and unity that he sought in vain within his own condition, and in this way to justify the fall of God. Then begins the desperate effort to create, at the price of crime and murder if necessary, the dominion of man.
Albert Camus -
I'm not leaving! I must stay.
Pierre Trudeau -
The defenders were hunted down and killed. Even when they tried to surrender, they were killed, for their fortress had resisted and that was the fate of garrisons that showed defiance.
Bernard Cornwell -
There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them.
Olive Schreiner