Celia Thaxter (Celia Laighton Thaxter) Quotes
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At first blush, it seems odd that loser lit books are rejected initially, then go on to be fiercely loved by legions of readers. This apparent contradiction might be due to the fact that if they didn't screw up their lives, most losers would be the kind of power-elite, Type A go-getters whom readers love to hate.
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There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.
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I'm just glad my gold medal's at home, because I'd hate to try to win another.
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I don't really mind not being a part of a film - because if there is no part for me, I will never force myself upon a film. I feel like it's just a distraction. If it is not organically incorporated into the story, it just feels like a stupid appearance, like a sort of wink. I hate that.
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If I don't write, I hate myself. Simple as that. My life is out of balance.
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I just hate meetings. Though it's true that once you've made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don't want to seize every opportunity to do so.
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I hate political correctness.
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'Orientalism' has successfully built my critical awareness to question and see the big picture of knowledge, perspective or idea from a Western point of view and always see things from different perspective.
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I hate writing. I almost never write. I write against deadlines. And when I'm teaching, I'm focused on that.
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Respect for the dignity of the human person is the foundational principle of any just society. From a Catholic perspective, it also forms the foundation of all of our Church's social teachings.
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There is not an issue that a woman cannot bring a perspective to.
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They say that the commons of England would first destroy the king's friends and afterward himself, and then bring the Duke of York to be king so that by their false means and lies they may make him to hate and destroy his friends, and cherish his false traitors.
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What is there to say? They are my friends. I would do it again, over and over - for I hate cruelty and intolerance.
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It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
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I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame.
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I hate hateful people.
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I hate to think I ever make my husband frightened or unhappy, but I suspect I do.
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I hate that number. I hate the number four. I just wanna, like, cut it in half and kill it. I hate it. I've been fourth so many times.
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In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it.
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The 'Cheetah Generation' refers to the new and angry generation of young African graduates and professionals, who look at African issues and problems from a totally different and unique perspective.
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There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch.
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Reality is what you can count on.
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I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.
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It is curious that the leaf should so love the light and the root so hate it.
