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 hate the way chorus boxes sound.
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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 music, especially when it's played.
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I hate hateful people.
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I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.
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…the Malay word chium meant to plough the beloved’s face with one’s nose
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I think my wife saw a picture of the rock group Journey, and they're kind of aging, and the one guy had dyed blonde hair with black roots, and... my idea was to get a little earring, I wanted to have a dangling earring.
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I have a lot of plants and fish and a pet lizard and Venus flytraps. I have a whole ecosystem in my room, like a running waterfall and different lights and sensors set on digital timers.
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It is curious that the leaf should so love the light and the root so hate it.
