Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes
Beginnings were not suitable, she felt, after a certain age, especially not for women. Mothers of the married, such as herself and Mrs. Cumfrit, should be concerned rather with endings than beginnings.
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.
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When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.
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I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.
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Work is so much fun that it doesn't really seem like downtime when I'm not. But cooking, spending time with my family, friends and dog are what I'm usually doing when I'm not working on something.
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Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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Definitely, I think I fulfill a very funny Indian stereotype because I love technology. It's something I've always been interested in.
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I attend Internet conferences all the time, and they literally make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
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Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
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I get angry real quick, but I also cool down just as fast. Albanians don't want to deal with anything in the moment.
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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
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About once every four days, someone comes up to me and is like, 'Hey, I know you from somewhere.'
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If I could make albums quicker, I'd be on a roll wouldn't I? Everything just seems to take so much time. I don't know why. Time... evaporates.
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Bebop and hip-hop, in so many ways, they're connected. A lot of rappers remind me so much of bebop guys in terms of improvisation, beats and rhymes. My dream is to see hip-hop incorporated in education. You've got the youth of the world in the palm of your hand.
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My job was to find interesting material that would give us a quality television show.
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These external regions, what do we fill them with Except reflections
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The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting.
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I realized that I have to slow down. I work so hard, I'm so busy.
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I actually have some family that's from Missouri, and my husband is an outrageous St. Louis Cardinals fan, so we go to St. Louis every once in a while to go see baseball games.
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This is my belief: that through difficulties and problems God gives us the opportunity to grow. So when your hopes and dreams and goals are dashed, search among the wreckage, you may find a golden opportunity hidden in the ruins.
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The Commons is one of the most depressing and intellectually unstimulating places in the country. On the state of British politics.
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Beginnings were not suitable, she felt, after a certain age, especially not for women. Mothers of the married, such as herself and Mrs. Cumfrit, should be concerned rather with endings than beginnings.
