Caryll Houselander Quotes
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The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
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The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.
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Keep your debt low, and ask, Can your operational expertise make an impact? Then you're taking away a lot of the risk.
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When there's no push back against Islamophobic rhetoric, people see that as tacit endorsement of anti-Islamic rhetoric.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate.
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About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'
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Rob Neill has a deep appreciation for the law and the role it can play in the lives of families. Rob's sincere desire to serve and his impressive experience will make him the kind of judge who will change lives and impact families in a positive way.
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My whole life has been a huge mistake, but what a divine mistake - doing something that I adore.
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The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
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When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.
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I love Indian food, and my favourite dish is dal rice.
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I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.
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When I finally decided to do the show, I only had two weeks to learn the choreography and the songs in French.
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I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it.
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I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive. It's horrifying.
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In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.
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In Iceland, you can see the contours of the mountains wherever you go, and the swell of the hills, and always beyond that the horizon. And there's this strange thing: you're never sort of hidden; you always feel exposed in that landscape. But it makes it very beautiful as well.
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I’ve been round the world several times and now only banality still interests me.
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It is to the advantage of Hispanics not to be taken for granted by one party and ignored by the other. Hispanics will realize their political power only if courted and engaged by both sides.
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I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively.
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Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality.
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What attracted me to Zen was my first teacher, Tim McCarthy. He was extremely genuine. It wasn't even really a Zen thing, that sort of came along later.
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We are only syllables of the perfect Word.
