Edith Wharton Quotes
In the rotation of crops there was a recognized season for wild oats; but they were not sown more than once.
Quotes to Explore
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Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.
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The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.
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In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.
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Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me it's all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters.
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Whenever someone says something bad about you, just confront them on it and just be a man and own up to it. If you said something you shouldn t have said, and it's important to somebody you need to talk to, you need to go talk to them. Be a man. Step up.
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I don't know my armpit from my elbow in Los Angeles.
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In the 1990s, the United States offered to help North Korea with its energy needs if it gave up its nuclear weapons programme.
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I don't want to be an absent mother. Otherwise, why have children?
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If you can find a way that your principles are actually the strategically smartest thing to do, you've kind of figured it out.
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I like doing movies that relate to people's experience.
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The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how its mainstream appearance should be, there's always these strange questions of authenticity and what you have to do to be 'real' as a rapper.
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George Bush is just as much in the dark as I am, and it scares me.
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The world's most deadly disease is 'hardening of the attitudes.'
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By starving our children of men, we have made them more vulnerable to the very abuse we are trying to prevent. – page 97.
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A common and not necessarily apocryphal example portrays a solo practitioner starved for business in a small town. A second lawyer then arrives, and they both prosper.
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Success, n. The one unpardonable sin against one's fellows.
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A cow couldn't find its calf in this room.
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Inside the Party, Stalin has put himself above all criticism and the State. It is impossible to displace him except by assassination. Every oppositionist becomes ipso facto a terrorist.
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After I script the movie, I have to storyboard it out, I have to budget it, and I have to understand if I can afford all those visual effects or not.
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ISS leak is just like on a ship, there are bulkheads that, if there's an emergency, can separate an area that's no longer airtight from the undamaged portion of the station. The former Russian space station Mir actually did once develop a leak, after colliding with an unmanned cargo ship. Everyone survived.
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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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Being a magician taught me how powerful the element of surprise can be. In each book, I've tried to work that in - an unexpected twist in a story that reveals an insight, a counter intuitive study that turns your beliefs upside-down.
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In the rotation of crops there was a recognized season for wild oats; but they were not sown more than once.
