Elizabeth Fox, Baroness Holland Quotes
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It's a great challenge to get to play a real-life character. Every actor would love to get a chance, at least once in his life, to play a real-life character.
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The more activity around Chicago-based companies, and the more success that entrepreneurs have in Chicago, the better we as venture capitalists in Chicago will do.
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The one thing I loved so much about making 'Pitch Perfect 2' - especially in comparison to a movie like 'Ten Thousand Saints' - is you can go and be yourself, and you just know that all your weirdness and craziness and imperfections are completely embraced and accepted.
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If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.
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I expect people to at least use some thought.
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The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak.
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If you put these five things together - you can't use money to attract talent, you can't advertise, you can't take risks, you can't invest in long-term results, and you don't have a stock market - then we have just put the humanitarian sector at the most extreme disadvantage to the for-profit sector on every level, and then we call the whole system charity, as if there is something incredibly sweet about it.
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The crowns of kings do not prevent those who wear them from being tormented sometimes by violent headaches.
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No man, even though he be Shakespeare, can write perfectly when his web is woven of threads that have been spun in many lands.
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The Bible is the book that makes fools of the wise of this world; it is only understood by the plain and simple hearted.
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Rehearsal's mostly to get the sound and lights up and knock a few cobwebs off.
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You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
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Both the worldling and the noble disciple experience painful bodily feelings, but they respond to these feelings differently. The worldling reacts to them with aversion and therefore, on top of the painful bodily feeling, also experiences a painful mental feeling: sorrow, resentment, or distress. The noble disciple, when afflicted with bodily pain, endures such feeling patiently, without sorrow, resentment, or distress. It is commonly assumed that physical and mental pain are inseparably linked, but the Buddha makes a clear demarcation between.
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Troubles, like babies, grow larger by nursing.
