Winifred Holtby Quotes
If you are rich, you have lovely cars, and jars full of flowers, and books in rows, and a wireless, and the best sort of gramophone and meringues for supper.
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I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.
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It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.
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The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals? It's very stuck, whereas with electronic music, new sounds are being created.
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Many people who I respected were disappointed when I started 'Wine Library TV.' They thought I was dumbing down wine, but I always knew I was one of the biggest producers of new wine drinkers in the world, and people are realizing it now.
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You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.
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One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.
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There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.
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Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!
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Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.
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When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist.
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It's really important, especially for young girls, to see that if you fall down, you get back up. If you get sick, you get back up. People are going to say what they want.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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We the voice of the young world. We the voice of the people.
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I invested all my money in debt.
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The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film.
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I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.
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Perhaps generations of students of human evolution, including myself, have been flailing about in the dark; that our data base is too sparse, too slippery, for it to be able to mold our theories. Rather the theories are more statements about us and ideology than about the past. Paleontology reveals more about how humans view themselves than it does about how humans came about, but that is heresy.
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The sufferings of Christ are the means of forgiveness of sin and eternal glory.
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I am proud that we worked so hard to improve seniors' lives.
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As I told the kids on the way home, this conference is tough. We have to build mental as well as physical toughness to be competitive.
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If you are rich, you have lovely cars, and jars full of flowers, and books in rows, and a wireless, and the best sort of gramophone and meringues for supper.
