Ann Bridge (Mary Ann Dolling) Quotes
Do get over the idea that size has any value or merit. It is the enemy of most of the best things in the world - it is the enemy of the good life.
Quotes to Explore
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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The Tea Party emerged from a laudably grassroots base: libertarians, fervent Constitutionalists, and ordinary people alarmed at the suppression of liberties, whether by George W. Bush or Barack Obama.
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Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
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My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.
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I went through a stage of writing my cramped hand in tiny books. My two sisters and I did have our Bronte period. My mum is from Yorkshire, and we would go up to the Moors. It tapped into our romantic visions of ourselves.
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In our league, it comes right down to the end.
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Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
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In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
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In the past, there hasn't been much reliable information about startups and small businesses available online. It's information that's really valuable, and it's information that people want to share.
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Most of us are at war with ourselves, are our own worst enemies. We expect a great deal of ourselves, yet we do not put ourselves in a condition to achieve great things. We are either too indulgent to our bodies, or we are not indulgent enough.
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I feel so much pride to represent my community and be Latino. No doubt about it, above my career and sales being a Latino comes first.
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We won the war, but we are losing the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq. It is past time for a new approach, one that relies on accountability, responsibility, and phasing down the scope of our military commitment.
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Art must not serve might.
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No disease of the imagination is so difficult to cure, as that which is complicated with the dread of guilt: fancy and conscience then act interchangeably upon us, and so often shift their places, that the illusions of one are not distinguished from the dictates of the other.
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Listening is self-empowerment via the empowerment of others.
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I was early taught to work as well as play,My life has been one long, happy holiday;Full of work and full of play -I dropped the worry on the way -And God was good to me every day.
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I was born in an enemy country. Only in America can someone who came from that beginning do what I am doing. It would never happen in Germany or Japan.
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There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.
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Sunday night is curry night. I always order a spinach paneer and a chicken tikka. There's usually something good on TV like 'Mr Selfridge' or 'Downton Abbey,' so I'll watch them before I have to think about blowdrying my hair and all the other boring stuff us girls have to do!
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God loves you as though you are the only person in the world, and He loves everyone the way He loves you.
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Don't do what you can do - try what you can't do.
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Do get over the idea that size has any value or merit. It is the enemy of most of the best things in the world - it is the enemy of the good life.
