Winifred Holtby Quotes
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I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night.
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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My identity comprises of more than just my faith. I am a proud Muslim, but I am also a liberal, a Briton, a Pakistani, a Londoner, a father, a product of the globalised world who speaks English, Arabic and Urdu.
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China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption.
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Being authentic can be a good thing in that often people who are fixated on that are also fixated on having very high standards, so they may maintain something they think has tremendous value. On the other hand, most of the kinds of music that I've been excited about are hybrid in their origins.
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You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.
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My goal is I want to create the 20-20-20 club: 20 sacks, 20 tackles for loss, 20 batted balls.
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I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.
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If I get to be a legend, I've achieved my goal.
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Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.
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64: Often it is means that justify ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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Marriage, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.
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If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.
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Die Wahrheit kann warten: denn sie hat ein langes Leben vor sich.
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In Selma as elsewhere we seek and pray for peace. We seek order. We seek unity. But we will not accept the peace of stifled rights, or the order imposed by fear, or the unity that stifles protest. For peace cannot be purchased at the cost of liberty.
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Daphne Guinness was amazingly comfortable in her skin, and she has an amazing collection in fashion that I wish I could just touch.
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Burning fossil fuels emits carbon dioxide. And carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas that traps heat in the atmosphere. There is no debate about that. The link is as certain as the link between smoking and cancer.
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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.
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If you're Iran's minister of defense, I think you'd try to develop at least one nuclear weapon to save yourself from what happened to Iraq.
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Identity is part of drama to me. Who am I, why am I behaving this way, and am I aware of it?
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Elena wondered if Michaela was waiting to be served. Snorting inwardly at the idea, she poured her own coffee—and, because she was feeling generous, and okay, maybe because she wanted to irritate Michaela—Raphael’s as well. Then she put down the carafe.
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The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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We constantly had family conversations. A lot of conversations about life. We've always been a family to where we did everything together, whether it was karate or Bible study... I just really had a chance to look and learn.
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What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones.
