Edith Wharton Quotes
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J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me believe in my talent and whatever happened in the past, he's been a wonderful manager to me.
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The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
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I understand that the nature of politics sometimes involves fending off frivolous, anonymous allegations.
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Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.
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I'd like to do more acting.
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This love is silent.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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There was a girl who messaged me and said she was on the verge of taking her life, then 'Battles' came on just in the nick of time.
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When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.
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I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
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To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'
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This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
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It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
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That was my challenge as an actress: to be a necessary part of the office without being too aggressive.
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O king! I was but a man like others, asleep upon my couch, when lo, the breezes of the All-Glorious were wafted over me, and taught me the knowledge of all that hath been. This thing is not from me, but from One Who is Almighty and All-Knowing.
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Someone who's a great hero of mine and has become a friend is Patti Smith.
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There are some who think that the government is limited in how many corruption cases it can bring against Wall Street, because juries can't understand the complexity of the financial schemes involved. But in 'U.S.A. v. Carollo,' that turned out not to be true.
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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The moral of human life is never simple, and the moral of a story which aims only at being true to human life cannot be expected to be any more so.
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True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
