Edmund Burke Quotes
Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm very self-critical.
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I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.
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Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.
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There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.
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I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.
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I don't ever want to be sad about my life.
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I've never been one for crushing on famous people.
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Sometimes, if I don't write for a day or two, I get backed up - it's like constipation.
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To change man, the audience by which he judges himself must be changed. A man is defined by his audience: by the people, institutions, authors, magazines, movie heroes, philosophers by whom he pictures himself being cheered and booed. Major psychological disturbances, 'identity crises', are caused when an individual begins to change the audience for whom he plays: from parents to peers; from peers to the works of Albert Camus; from the Bible to Hugh Hefner.
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You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.
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The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
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I really just tried to make a record full of great songs, which is the goal I always have.
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Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind.
