Eglantyne Jebb Quotes
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I don't think she's me. Now I don't even feel as if I was shot. Even my life in Swat feels like a part of history or a movie I watched. Things change. God has given us a brain and a heart which tell us how to live.
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If we focus on loving others the way God does, scripture says that we will be fulfilling His whole law.
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Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.
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Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.
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I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.
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It's better to be skinny than to be fat.
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When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.
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I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.
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There are so many people that say they are actors and they don't spend for 5 minutes a day working on their craft. You need to train and need to take classes to keep your tools sharp. I'm always in class, whether it's theater or drama workshops.
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I need to be looked after. I'm not talking about diamond rings and nice restaurants and fancy stuff – in fact, that makes me uncomfortable. I didn't grow up with it, and it's not me, you know. But I need someone to say to me, 'Shall I run you a bath?' or 'Let's go to the pub, just us.'
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Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
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'Were I to use the wits the good Spirits gave me,' he said, 'then I would say this lady can not exist - for what sane man would hold a dream to be reality. Yet rather would I not be sane and lend belief to charmed, enchanted eyes.'
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The world of literature is so rich and so enriching. The value is inestimable of what reading does for you.
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When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out.
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I've played D&D for years. I'm a comic book guy. Comic-Con in San Diego is nerd Christmas for me.
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'Eastern Promises' is great.
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I've always been a fan of Coldplay.
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Write about what you want to know.
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There are 13 Asian countries that still have elephants, and Elephant Family is looking to invest in further projects that will be the most critical for saving elephants while there is still time.
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Cross cultural experience teaches us not simply that people have different beliefs, but that people seek meaning and understand themselves in some sense as members of a cosmos ruled by God.
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Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor's Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there.
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All wars are waged against children
