Barbara Mary Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Quotes
The wealthy white western minority of the world could not hope to prosper if most of the rest of mankind were foundering in hopeless poverty. Islands of plenty in a vast ocean of misery never have been a good recipe for commercial success.
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
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I wouldn't mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great.
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When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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Some things have to be believed to be seen.
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What I'm trying to do is get a change in the mindset so people move from a level of mere tolerance to total acceptance and eventually to celebrate diversity. If you feel comfortable with one another, it doesn't matter whether we live in which neighbourhood but we can interact with one another freely. It's a mindset.
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It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
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For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.
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Obviously fashion is a completely different world from football.
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My mom and my father's birthday are on the same day.
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I think I think in the moment. So when I'm in character, I'm in character, and I'm obviously thinking about what's going on around me, but it's easier to do stuff when you're in character.
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I just wanna hear my own voice.
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Whatever my father did were great films. I don't want to remake any of them.
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The truth of the matter is that I have lasted a long time, and with it comes both good and bad things. One of the good things is that no one can ever take my career away from me. No one can ever say, 'You can't be in the theater any more.'
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Idealism is based on big ideas. And, as anybody who has ever been asked 'What's the big idea?' knows, most big ideas are bad ones.
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Scrabble was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia. This is true, they proved this one. The word dyslexia was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia.
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There is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. ... When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.
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It was better to imagine a sacrifice being for something.
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Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself.
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Get in, get it done, get it done right, and get out.
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Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
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The wealthy white western minority of the world could not hope to prosper if most of the rest of mankind were foundering in hopeless poverty. Islands of plenty in a vast ocean of misery never have been a good recipe for commercial success.
