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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The more we live with what we imagine others think of us, the less we live with truth.
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I'm not the kind of person to sit and dwell for ages on something that happened. I go through something, I experience it, I try to learn from it, and I move forward.
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In the future, I want a movie career, kids and a happy marriage.
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We recognized that for our future, and for the way the customer was now shopping, we had to have one point of view. All roads lead back to the customer.
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Future medicine will be the medicine of frequencies.
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The future comes like an unwelcome guest.