Edmund Gosse Quotes
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.
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Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.
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The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.
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The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.
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I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
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Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
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If you are only big in China, you are only a local Chinese company.
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I just love scary movies. I love the thrill.
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There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.
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Believing you're something that you're not excites the mind and the imagination. And it's hopeful.
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I'm a geek through and through. My last job at Microsoft was leading much of the search engine relevance work on Bing. There we got to play with huge amounts of data, with neural networks and other AI techniques, with massive server farms.
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It's nice to see that people in Middle America are really affected.
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We have little bags we pack specifically for touch-up makeup if you're chosen for the top 16. I knew I had to sneak in my banana because nothing calms my nerves like it! I don't know if it's the potassium, but I need it before I get on stage because it always calms me down.
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Major organizational changes create uncertainty.
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'Love Story' is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn't like him. All of them!
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I did a lot of theater in college, and I knew that not many people make it, but I just figured, 'Well, I really want to try acting while I'm young, and I don't ever want to look back and say that I never gave it a try.' I fully figured I'd be back in grad school - probably for psychology.
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A chic guy is in a suit. I don't care what kind of tie they wear. I don't care if they even wear a tie, as long as they can carry a suit.
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I don't think stardom will ever go to my head.
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The scientist and engineers who are building the future need the poets to make sense of it.
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By exciting citizens about the new digital opportunity, breaking down silos of competing groups to form a truly open innovation ecosystem and shifting day-to-day resources to focus on big long-term investments for the future, countries can ensure that they break through and bridge the digital gap.
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The future comes like an unwelcome guest.
