Catherine Helen Spence Quotes
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We need a reasonable price where producers will not start nagging. At a reasonable price, we can invest to produce more oil.
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.
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When you watch 'Ray Donovan,' you think that it's about Hollywood, about scandal, about stars, and about trying to keep secrets. That's true, but that's also just the means by which you reveal secrets of the people suffering every day life.
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For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
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Hopefully, one day I won't have to be so caught up in all of that day-to-day, the Twitter and the Instagram. But I also would like to, at some point, turn off and take a break and also be, like, an artist.
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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
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George W. Bush was a silver spoon dolt with no record to speak of other than bankruptcy and selling tropical plants, and we let him sail into the White House, but Barack talks about religious fundamentalism and guns being prevalent in poor areas, and we roast him for weeks?
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One of the best ways to deal with the peer pressure of the 'Fear of Missing Out' is to opt-out whenever possible.
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I'm the happiest when I'm in the studio, not on a beauty parade.
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One recalls how much the creative impulse of the best-sellers depends upon self-pity. It is an emotion of great dramatic potential.
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In the morning, I look at my calendar and think about whether things that aren't critical can be moved to the next week.
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WeWork is working to create a world where people make a life and not just a living.
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I'm metrics-based.
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Judgments that give an impression that we can disregard the Constitution for political expediency, or to solve what we regard as current problems, set a dangerous precedence which will make it difficult to govern in future or to make ordinary citizens to abide by the Constitution.
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I've always been fond of Tim Drake/Robin. I suppose it's the YA writer in me. I enjoy the intensity of young, smart heroes. I'd love to write him in either graphic or prose form.
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A skill required to be president is to explain to the American people any given thing they do.
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I always dread the process of writing because I'm not a writer. I'm an audible guy, I'm a verbal guy. I love to talk. I write a book every couple years, but it just takes everything out of me to get a book out.
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The reactions of organic magnesium compounds are of two kinds - reactions of substitution and reactions of addition.
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I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific discipline, a specific world.
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My father instilled in me an attitude that you couldn't really enjoy yourself unless you had done something to deserve it. So, my childhood was spent working on farms or local shops or, when I got older, in banks.
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I look back to a happy childhood.
