William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley Quotes
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The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.
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I was born in Coney Island. I like to think I fell out of the womb onto the fun park's giant Parachute Jump while eating a Nathan's hot dog.
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I don't come from a famous family and don't have this detachment from everyday people and everyday life. I'm just doing my job and the attention that comes with it is part of the territory.
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We are so focused on the material aspects of life that we lose sight of everything else.
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Investigate what is, and not what pleases.
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I remember being in high school and listening to Vivaldi's 'Winter' and being so overwhelmed with emotion.
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I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare.
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Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation.
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I discovered feminism around 1970-72-precisely the time when feminism began to exist in France. Before that, there was no feminism.
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I think spirituality is a good thing but I dislike any sort of dogmatic organization.
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Who gave it that title, gangsta rap? It's reality rap. It's about what's really going on.
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No one's a virgin, life screws us all!
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The fact that women are very young in obtaining their civil rights and African-Americans are young in obtaining their civil rights, I think it's about time that we extend that to all Americans, whether straight, gay, purple, green, black, brown.
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Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of observation.
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The understanding also hath its idiosyncrasies as well as other faculties.
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I happen to be the kind of reader who, if I like something, I don't want it to end.
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I know that there's people that have expectations of me, and I'm a people pleaser, so I want them to be happy.
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Even under a harsh God-and I do not believe in a harsh God-one is entitled to serenity in old age.
