Edith Wharton Quotes
In the rotation of crops there was a recognized season for wild oats; but they were not sown more than once.
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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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It's called Sisters of the Winter Madrigal. It was interesting for me to see it done after so many years; because I wrote it and I didn't realize what a rage I was in.
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He tried to give his wife pleasure in little ways, because he had come to realize, after nearly two decades together, how often he disappointed her in the big things. It was never intentional. They simply had very different notions of what ought to take up most space in life.
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We all have the duty to do good.
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I love seeing my husband hold our daughter and just give her kisses, unsolicited kisses. When he doesn't know that I'm watching or when I come into the room and I look over and he's just kissing her forehead or kissing her cheek. He loves her so much, and I love his love for her.
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I have met thousands and thousands of pro-choice men and women. I have never met anyone who is pro-abortion. Being pro-choice is not being pro-abortion. Being pro-choice is trusting the individual to make the right decision for herself and her family, and not entrusting that decision to anyone wearing the authority of government in any regard.
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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.
