Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes
Not the least of my many blessings is that we have only one neighbour. If you have to have neighbours at all, it is at least a mercy that there should be only one; for with people dropping in at all hours and wanting to talk to you, how are you to get on with your life, I should like to know, and read your books, and dream your dreams to your satisfaction?
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Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.
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Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.
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The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be.
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Palestine is the issue, and until this issue is resolved, there can be no peace.
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I always wanted to play some kind of instrument - piano, saxophone, whatever. I took it up for a while, then forgot about it because I didn't have the time.
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The heart is the best reflective thinker.
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Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing.
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Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
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I make hit records. I make hit records to motivate the people.
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If you buy a DVD you have a copy. If you want a backup copy you buy another one.
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In other periods of depression it has always been possible to see some things which were solid and upon which you could base hope, but as I look about, I now see nothing to give ground for hope - nothing of man. But there is still religion, which is the same yesterday, today, and forever. That continues as a solid basis for hope and courage.
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Whether they are fit for independence or not remains to be tried. Merit is no qualification for freedom. Bulgars, Afghans, and Tahitans have it. Freedom is enjoyed when you are so well armed, or so turbulent, or inhabit a country so thorny that the expense of your neighbour's occupying you is greater than the profit.
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There are simply two kinds of music, good music and the other kind ... the only yardstick by which the result should be judged is simply that of how it sounds. If it sounds good it's successful; if it doesn't it has failed.
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People love me. And you know what, I have been very successful. Everybody loves me.
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Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business.
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From doing Power Station, it was like, it's the same guys, but it doesn't sound like them. When we were in Duran, the labels and management wanted more Duran stuff so they could sell it.
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I was making so much money I didn't care. I didn't know what to do with the money.
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I am genuinely not an over-the-top kind of person about politics or anything else.
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Almost every ride we're profitable on. We make money on every ride.
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The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die.
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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.
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Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
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As long as we set up equality, we'll go in the right direction.
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Not the least of my many blessings is that we have only one neighbour. If you have to have neighbours at all, it is at least a mercy that there should be only one; for with people dropping in at all hours and wanting to talk to you, how are you to get on with your life, I should like to know, and read your books, and dream your dreams to your satisfaction?
