Barbara Mary Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Quotes
It is a fact of history that those who seek to withdraw from its great experiments usually end up being overwhelmed by them.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.
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No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy.
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I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.
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When we think about the past, we think, 'It must have been so boring.' It's actually not.
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Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.
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I get into all sorts of trouble with my publicists and with newspapers because I won't do photographs.
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For a production that suggests a mysterious dreamscape, I have a particular affection for the Vivian Beaumont Theater. It is the largest dramatic space available in New York City in terms of plays, although musicals have been done there very successfully as well.
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When I was little, I had concerts on the subway, and old ladies came up to me like, 'You are so good!'
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This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic, wink at technology, fill us all with the sensawunda that comes of gazing upon a fictional world and seeing something truly different from our own.
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Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.
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I love when I go to conventions, and often it'll be the younger kids who will refer to us by our character names - how can you not find that absolutely charming? I remember when I used to go to conventions when I was a kid when I would stand in long lines to get people's autograph.
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Time is a waste of money.
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Ever since my childhood, I had seen my father carrying so many bags- suitcases with false bottoms , leather satchels or overnight bags, even those black briefcases that gave him a false air of repectability…. And I never knew just what was in them. ( 52 )
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I love the flesh. I'm a pagan. 'Who are they who speak evil of the clay? The very stars are made of clay like mine!'
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You drive past your old high school, and even if everybody treated you terribly, you still go take a look, don't you?
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To me, talk shows are those things during the middle of the afternoon where the underbelly of society is made to look like Middle America.
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We've managed to have a long career that is still quite vibrant, yet we've never had to kow-tow to record companies who said we weren't commercial enough.
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And what's interesting about the hybrids taking off is you've now introduced electric motors to the automobile industry. It's the first radical change in automobile technology in 100 years.
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Jury instructions are so numerous and complex, it's a wonder jurors ever wade through them. And so it should come as no surprise that they can sometimes get stuck along the way. The instruction on circumstantial evidence is confusing even to lawyers. And reasonable doubt? That's the hardest, most elusive one of all.
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[John Kerry] actually stole my line because when I became Secretary of State, I said, 'I hope my heels will fill Warren Christopher's shoes.' So he reversed that.
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I was able to lean on people for favors and things to help out because their budget was so low. It was half of what John Travolta's perk package is on a film. Our whole budget was half of what his staff makes on a film.
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It is a fact of history that those who seek to withdraw from its great experiments usually end up being overwhelmed by them.
