Barbara Holland Quotes
In the taverns all was amiable and easy, but the coffeehouses were cauldrons of edgy malcontents.
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There has to be room for people to make mistakes and lead their own lives.
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There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
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My mother was devoted to helping people - with my father's money! - who had great voices but didn't have the financial means to study music. He and my mum gave away dozens of music scholarships, and my mum opened a school in town, introduced opera to children and created fantastic programmes.
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Being a pastor's kid comes with a lot of pressure and scrutiny. A lot of my dad's sermons were about respect. It was a beautiful way to be taught about love and two people being equal.
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Hatred and bitterness can never cure the disease of fear; only love can do that. Hatred paralyzes life; love harmonies it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
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Unscientific man is beset by a deplorable desire to have been right. The scientist is distinguished by a desire to be right.
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Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.
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I don't eat red meat.
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When you're acting, you do have to prepare yourself for doing that. You have to leave behind - or you try and leave behind - anything that's going on in your personal life.
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I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.
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It's hard to point to any single inspiration for 'iZombie' since, in actuality, it's made up from elements inspired by all kinds of different thing all mashed up together.
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Education today does not impart to the students the capacity or grit to face the challenges of daily life. The educational field has become the playing ground of ignorance.
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I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.
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I know a lot of writers who would much rather be writing the Great American Novel, but they've got bills to pay and alimony, and so they take a job at a less-than-reputable paper. You know, you do what you gotta do.
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'Twilight's got some avid - and rabid - fans.
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I was briefly bitter.
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KIND had grown from a team of dedicated, overworked generalists to a large, professional organization with specialists who had either come in from outside or had been groomed internally to grow in a focused area about which they're passionate.
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The fact that you can't base a coffeehouse on any other rock band is the other rock bands' problem, not mine.
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It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.
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Our Revolution was born and raised in taverns.
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I think we should have more coffeehouses, more cafes, more "third places." More places where people can get together that's not work, not home, and where they can interact with people who are different from them.
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The coffeehouse is good for genius, and the Viennese coffeehouse is a classic case. Freud had his favorite coffee shop, and so did Gustav Klimt.
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In the taverns all was amiable and easy, but the coffeehouses were cauldrons of edgy malcontents.
