Carl Schurz Quotes
Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.
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My role is to embody the Black Opium woman - I suppose you have to be the living embodiment of all the intangible things the brand stands for.
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And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.
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For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
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You don't run from the bad things in life; learn from them, because your worst is what will lead you to your best.
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America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.
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Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.
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I always have coffee and porridge for breakfast.
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All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.
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You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.
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Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant - Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs - as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They'll help us with our things and take us to our hotel. From the moment I arrive, I'll always be together with the other two laureates.
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I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.
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This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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I have worked for three decades as a staunch advocate of building a 'big tent' party that includes both pro-choice and pro-life Republicans.
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When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down.
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Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
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I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.
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London audiences have this reputation for being a bit too cool for school.
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Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand-new day.
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Humanity and Immortality consist neither in reason, nor in love; not in the body, nor in the animation of the heart of it, nor in the thoughts and stirrings of the brain of it;--but in the dedication of them all to Him who will raise them up at the last day.
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I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.
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It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are lines of raised beaches, containing marine shells of the same species as those now inhabiting the neighbouring sea.
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Remind me of the place. The wind breathing through the trees and the sound of coconuts dropping on the mud. Ta-dup ta dup. The hairy mangrove crabs and the turtles. The evening sky looking like a big mash up rainbow with all these colors leaking down on the sea. The fresh smell of fish and sand in the mornings. Cascadura jumping up from the ponds like living clumps of mud. Dew skating down from the big dasheen leaves as if they playing with the sunlight. A horsewhip snake slipping down a guava branch as smooth as flowing water. Cassava pone and seamoss drinks.
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Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.
