Barbara Holland Quotes
Visiting is a pleasure; being visited is usually a mixed or ambivalent joy. ... The visitor can always go home; the visitee is already home, trapped like a rat in a drainpipe.
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.
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Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
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It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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The job as a coach is difficult.
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I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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I don't do meetings.
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I am really addicted to music.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
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If I feel like I need a little color, I'll get a natural spray tan. Not only does this give me a little extra coverage, but it also allows me to achieve the bronzed look I want without the sun damage.
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Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.
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Being able to laugh is sexy in a man or woman.
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There isn't a person on Earth who couldn't use a connection with nature.
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I might talk about killing people, but that doesn't mean I do it.
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E-Commerce is happening the way all the hype said it would. Internet deployment is happening. Broadband is happening. Everything we ever said about the Internet is happening. And it is very, very early. We can't even glimpse it's potential in changing the way people work and live.
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A kiss with the right person simply can't be compared to the drudgery of sleeping with the wrong one over and over.
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I believe in carbon offset initiatives, in eco-villages, in the sustainable regeneration of the tropical rainforest.
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The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can.
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Visiting is a pleasure; being visited is usually a mixed or ambivalent joy. ... The visitor can always go home; the visitee is already home, trapped like a rat in a drainpipe.
