Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes

For years she had been able to be happy only by forgetting happiness. She wanted to stay like that. She wanted to shut out everything that would remind her of beautiful things, that might set her off again long, desiring . . .

Elizabeth von Arnim

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• Remind
• Desiring

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• If there should prove to be one real, living Free State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be-extinct variety of the genus Democrat.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• While make-up helps to enhance one's features, too much of it tends to hide a person's features.

  

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• Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.

  

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• I don't know who Little Richard is.

  

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• A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
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• People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.

  

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• I'm so appreciative that people have begun to recognize my work in a way where it can afford me more opportunities.

  

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• There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.

  

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  • Light
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• I have yet to meet a carnivore who doesn't love a sausage roll.

  

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• Every man over 40 should have a PSA test each year.

  

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• The Church does not pretend to be scientists. It teaches based upon what science tells it.

  

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• Once your dream is fulfilled you face another one.

  

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• We have to do everything we can to try to create jobs and get people back to work.

  

  Austan Goolsbee
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• He said when the Lord made people He made them all the same for starters. But life marks people. If you know the way, you can read them like maps.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • People
  • Life
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• It’s a trifle. It’s got all of these layers. First there’s a layer of ladyfingers, then a layer of jam, then custard, which I made from scratch, then raspberries, more ladyfingers, then beef sauteed with peas and onions, then a little more custard, and then bananas, and then I just put some whipped cream on top!

  

  Rachel

• Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic Delta force - people not realizing that they were always there but doing different things than what we see them doing at the moment.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
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• I believe in being a motivator.

  

  Walt Disney
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• My success will be remembered by others. I don't have to constantly remind myself. However, I must always remember my failure, for if I forget them, I am bound to myself.

  

  Lee Myung-bak
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  • Failure

• This world, such as it is, is not tolerable. Therefore I need the moon, or happiness, or immortality, I need something which is perhaps demented, but which is not of this world.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Happiness
  • Need
  • Immortality

• To make filmmaking interesting to me, I want to keep learning things.

  

  Taika Waititi
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• I try to manage my day by my circadian rhythms because the creativity is such an elusive thing, and I could easily just stomp over it doing my administrative stuff.

  

  Scott Adams
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• For years she had been able to be happy only by forgetting happiness. She wanted to stay like that. She wanted to shut out everything that would remind her of beautiful things, that might set her off again long, desiring . . .

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Happiness
  • Remind
  • Desiring