Bernice L. McFadden Quotes
Prison had a way of draining people of their hope and humanity. But Harlan didn't have to worry about that because he'd gone in empty.
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
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I've always just felt a little out of place. I still feel out of place in San Francisco. It's this place where everything is going great, and everyone feels super optimistic about the world. It's a little different about how I grew up.
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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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No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.
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I've been noticing gravity since I was very young.
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One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.
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I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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In the end, the market will decide which is the better performer: dirty coal-fired power or clean wind and solar. Market-based competition. That doesn't sound like communism to me.
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By taking the time to stop and appreciate who you are and what you've achieved - and perhaps learned through a few mistakes, stumbles and losses - you actually can enhance everything about you. Self-acknowledgment and appreciation are what give you the insights and awareness to move forward toward higher goals and accomplishments.
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I'm a girls' girl. I have guy friends, but the problem with having guy friends is, like, I always get linked to them, and they'll end up in a slideshow of people I've apparently dated on the Internet.
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The insidious aid culture has left African countries more debt-laden, more inflation-prone, more vulnerable to the vagaries of the currency markets and more unattractive to higher-quality investment.
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Power to the peaceful.
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Working on 'Drive', a lot of fun. This is Tim Minear whom I've worked with before on 'Firefly' of course. He called me up and said, 'I've got a part for you that you will love,' and I love Tim's writing. I love his stories. I love his characters, his dialogue. He has a knack for reveals and he has a knack for moments.
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Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.
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You can learn more from the lows than the highs. The highs are great but the lows make you really look at things in a different way and want to improve. Every player will have both in their careers and I have, but what you get is that experience which is so important to perform at your best.
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Winston Peters: 'the only member of Parliament named after a concrete block, and I can understand that.' 1
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Ἡ δέ τοι κύκνου δίκηντὸν ὕστατον μέλψασα θανάσιμον γόονκεῖται † φιλήτως τοῦδ'.
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It is not necessarily true that expensive experiments are not worthwhile doing but there are plenty of rather cheap experiments which are certainly worth doing.
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You never know how your kids are going to turn out. You can raise them with all the best intentions, and then they're own people, and they have their own inner conflicts. You just hope you've given them some good stuff to navigate with.
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God is my Father, He loves me, I shall never think of anything He will forget. Why should I worry?
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Prison had a way of draining people of their hope and humanity. But Harlan didn't have to worry about that because he'd gone in empty.
