Christina Stead Quotes
She soon reached a point when she could not sit at the table with him and listen to his misbegotten notions and morality with its mistaken examples.
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I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.
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I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.
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First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
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Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.
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Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.
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A lot of people look at playing overseas as a step down from the NBA. And, yes it is a step down from the NBA money-wise, but there is just as good of talent overseas as in the NBA. Not better talent.
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The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards over the last five years.
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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.
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It is not in our interest to sign economic policy agreements with the IMF, as that unnecessarily limits the room to manoeuvre of... the Hungarian government, Hungarian parliament and lawmakers.
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I basically took six or seven years off, but then I had another five or four of me not working at all because I was in school. It was really 13 years of me not working at all... I really couldn't even think about it.
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For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don't think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I'm with them.
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I'm very curious to witness the historic transformation of Chinese women.
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Communications are better now than in my Vietnam days.
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The month of Ramadan is the world's most widespread fast and yet its teachings are minimised, neglected and even betrayed (through literal application of rules that overlooks their ultimate objective).
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Problems are cured by facing their cause.
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You're hot for two seconds, and you're struggling to get work again. If it were easy, I don't think that's a good place for an artist to work from.
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Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
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The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.
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By and large, women have a faith and a morality peculiar to themselves; they believe in the reality of everything that serves their interest and their passions.
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Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!
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Throughout the 1970s, '80s and '90s, federal mandatory minimum laws were implemented that forced judges to deliver sentences far lengthier than they would have if allowed to use their own discretion. The result has been decades of damage, particularly to young people.
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She soon reached a point when she could not sit at the table with him and listen to his misbegotten notions and morality with its mistaken examples.
