Winifred Holtby Quotes
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Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.
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It is our job, as members of parliament, to legislate with an eye to the long term future, to look over the horizon beyond the next election and ensure that as far as we can what we do today will make Australia a better place, a safer place, for future generations to live in.
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The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.
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A lot of people think I was an overnight success, but I was an opening act for three or four years, and then I signed my contract with EMI. Then it kind of blew up overnight.
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I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.
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I would go through phases of wanting to be a mermaid or a vet, but because I grew up around people who were always making movies, I guess it sort of just moulded my mind.
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I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.
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If you care about the news and write what you want to read - not just what you think Google search wants to read - there are people out there who want to read it.
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The slugs are ascending this steep city staircase that leads up to a huge Catholic church, essentially signifying their slow crawl towards death. The work reminds us of religion, mortality, natural decay, and the slow suffocation of commercialized societies.
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I'm not going to starve just to be thin... I want to enjoy life and I can't if I'm not eating and miserable.
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I that have loved thee thus before thou fadest,My faith shall wax, when thou art in thy waning.The world shall find this miracle in me,That fire can burn when all the matter's spent.
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Outlaw consciousness is born the moment I drop out, stop the world, cease being an actor identified with the mythic roles I have been playing in society. Change begins when I do nothing except observe. The wisdom of the railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen. Meditation is the healthy form of voyeurism.
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My son, whoever wishes to keep a secret, must hide from us that he possesses one. Self complaisance over the concealed destroys its concealment.
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You're the soldier girl who tells the other troops who haven't fought the battle what it's like so they can fight it better.
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The Big Bang theory says nothing about what banged, why it banged, or what happened before it banged.
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One of the first courses I ever taught at Dartmouth was on the Bible as literature.
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I think that we're always drawn - particularly sophisticated people - are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
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It takes some experimentation to figure out what people like and don't like.
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The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group - to say nothing of gay marriage - are becoming an unremarkable and even quite traditional parts of American life.
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As a kid, I was obsessed with space. Well, I was obsessed with nuclear science too, to a point, but before that, I was obsessed with space, and I was really excited about, you know, being an astronaut and designing rockets, which was something that was always exciting to me.
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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
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Everybody's tragedy is somebody's nuisance.
