Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes
Once more she had that really rather disgusting suspicion that her life till now had not only been loud but empty.
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I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.
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I wanted to get a cropped hairdo, but Sreenu Vaitla loves my look in 'Chiruta,' so he suggested that I keep the long hair.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
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I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.
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I am upset and completely disappointed in the government, the millionaires and billionaires in the U.S. See what's happening to the country? Look at all the health problems, the economy, the recession and crime.
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A woman's health is her capital.
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We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.
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We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.
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The only people who usually have input on my writing are my wife and my editor. I'm not in conversation with anyone except the people I report on and the people I work with.
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Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.
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I would never suggest anyone to stay at a company more than six or seven years. We grow as individuals and the world is moving so fast. Typically, I'll always sell a piece of each of my companies along the way.
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I have enormous respect for people who are gifted mechanics.
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Men are like mascara, they run at the slightest display of emotion.
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My social circle, my best friends, are all people that I met at UCB.
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You have this enormous network and no one knows what's out there.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of cliches. What they mistake for thought is simply a repetition of what they have heard. My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
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Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job.
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There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise; it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return.
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Once more she had that really rather disgusting suspicion that her life till now had not only been loud but empty.
