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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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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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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My cousins gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock.
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I’m always intrigued by my nonsensical concern with picking out a bunch of things that look exactly alike the ones that somehow I feel are the best and belong to me. It’s that same crazy urge or superstition, or whatever it is, that makes me open a Bible in a hotel room, hoping for some great happenstance spiritual word of advice. More often than not, I hit a long passage of begats and begots, which contain little inspiration other than the fact that procreation is the highest aim of life.
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I think I'm going to be making country records for as long as I can see into the future. It's much more down-home and real.
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I like what the future holds. I don't like thinking about the past.
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The future comes like an unwelcome guest.
