Moliere Quotes
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At times I wonder whether or not your role as a member of Parliament... may in fact inhibit a relationship developing.
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The biggest difference between L.A. and Edmonton was that instead of people looking at me I was looking at them.
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I'm a full-time writer, which means I have the entire day to get my work done. But that can also be bad, because that means I have the entire day to get in my way.
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The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
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What if you have seen it before, ten thousand times over? An apple tree in full blossom is like a message, sent fresh from heaven to earth, of purity and beauty.
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A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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Originally, in the early eighties, the drug hypothesis was among the first which occurred to scientists.
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Trust is earned, respect is given, and loyalty is demonstrated.
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People are really emotionally affected by actors. And it's hard to know how to behave in a way that doesn't impose or withdraw. Because everybody wants your attention.
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I have nothing but great respect for great scholars. But I was in grad school in the '80s and '90s, at the height of the theory craziness. It had a big part in why I ended up becoming a writer rather than a scholar, because I thought, "I just can't play these games." I was interested in literature because I loved literature, and so much of the theoretical positioning, at that moment 25 years ago, was antagonistic to literature. You know, trying to show that Jane Austen is a terrible person because she wasn't thinking about colonialism.
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I love acting. I'm able to express myself and not get made fun of for it.
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The patent talks about anticipatory package shipping, which the press seized upon as though Amazon could somehow mail you something before you bought it.
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If heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.
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Sleep deprivation is the most common brain impairment.
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Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?
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Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
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She was staring at a picture of me and Sam when we were seven. No front teeth. We were standing in the front yard. It was summer and the leaves of her mulberry tree were behind us. The caption read: She was always my sister.
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I can never acknowledge the right of slavery. I will bow down to no deity however worshipped by professing Christians - however dignified by the name of the Goddess of Liberty, whose footstool is the crushed necks of the groaning millions, and who rejoices in the resoundings of the tyrant's lash, and the cries of his tortured victims.
