Barbara (Monique Andrée Serf) Quotes
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It isn't given to us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords.
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Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it.
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The body is simple as a turtle / and straight as a dog: / the body cannot lie.
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I think, that in the twenty-second century, there will be more female reincarnations at female institutions. Then there'll be competition between male lama institutions and female lama institutions. It'll be a positive sort of competition.
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I don't think you need to be so result-oriented when you're trying to define the success of an art work. I think we can allow some unpredictability.
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I think music will always be a big part of my life. I can't go five minutes without singing, sometimes unconsciously. And people stare at me, and I'm wondering why they're staring, and then I'm realizing that I'm belting out a tune.
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It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)...regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.
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To find recreation in amusements is not happiness; for this joy springs from alien and extrinsic sources, and is therefore dependent upon and subject to interruption by a thousand accidents, which may minister inevitable affliction.
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Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!
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If people insist that honor is dearer than life itself, what they really mean is that existence and well-being are as nothing compared with other people's opinions. Of course, this may be only an exaggerated way of stating the prosaic truth that reputation, that is, the opinion others have of us, is indispensable if we are to make any progress in the world.
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“The first word you see at the airport is 'terminal'.”
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The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves.
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Touchdowns are better than field goals.
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I hold no man to be indispensable for the welfare of the country.
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I know that the blacks, take them half enlightened and ignorant, are more humane and merciful than the most enlightened and refined European that can be found in all the earth.
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Like the sun, we are attracted to people who shine with warmth and brightness.
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I haven't taken my Christmas lights down. They look so nice on the pumpkin.
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An enlightened citizen is an indispensable ingredient of the infrastructure of democracy.
