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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I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.
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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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After I play every character, I always walk away and feel a little different. I've experienced something that's not my life, but I've made it my life.
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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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At 15 I set my heart on learning; At 30 I firmly took my stand; At 40 I had no delusions; At 50 I knew the Mandate of Heaven; At 60 my ear was attuned; At 70 I followed my heart's desire without overstepping the boundaries of right.
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Facing the press is not easy, but because you have to go, you have to try to take a lot of positive things for yourself from these face-to-face meetings.
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The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
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If the White House could do more to tell parents that getting children reading is their business too, we'd see a big difference. Hollywood and the NBA or NFL could step in, too. In England they have an event called Book Day, where every child receives a pound to use at any bookstore.
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Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion.
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All wars are waged against children
