Barbara Mary Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Quotes
It is only when people begin to shake loose from their preconceptions, from the ideas that have dominated them, that we begin to receive a sense of opening, a sense of vision...That is the sort of time we live in now. We...live in an epoch in which the solid ground of our preconceived ideas shakes daily under our uncertain feet.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
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I'm the tomboy so I got to be a little butch.
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I am a sound freak. I could play around with sound forever.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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I got a big mouth.
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I moved when I was 16. I had no clue what to expect in moving to L.A. I had no clue, really, about what acting was. I just knew that I wanted to do it.
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I am overwhelmed with gratitude, and my heart is full. 'American Sniper' has broken records, which follows such an honest path of Chris's life.
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
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It's a place where I could do something on a weekly basis and see if I like it.
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I don't think Ripley is gay. He appreciates good looks in other men, that's true. But he's married in later books. I'm not saying he's very strong in the sex department. But he makes it in bed with his wife.
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The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
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I wasn't a rebel.
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But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24.
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If Assad continues to conduct strikes against the Free Syrian Army at will, it would be very difficult for them to have any success against ISIS.
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If we just made one movie, 'The Hobbit,' the fact is that all the fans, the eight-, nine- and 10-year-old boys, they would watch it 1,000 times. Now, they've got three films they can watch 1,000 times.
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I record all night and sleep all day.
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To really enjoy drugs you've got to want to get out of where you are. But there are some wheres that are harder to get out of than others. This is the drug-taking problem for adults. Teenage weltschmerz is easy to escape. But what drug will get a grown-up out of, for instance, debt?
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It is a difficult task, O citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears.
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Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?
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Scientific advertising has altered many old plans and conceptions. It has proved many long established methods to be folly.
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It is only when people begin to shake loose from their preconceptions, from the ideas that have dominated them, that we begin to receive a sense of opening, a sense of vision...That is the sort of time we live in now. We...live in an epoch in which the solid ground of our preconceived ideas shakes daily under our uncertain feet.
