Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes
There is nothing so absolutely bracing for the soul as the frequent turning of one's back on duties.
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I don't think of 'Macbeth' as the villain. I don't think of 'King Lear' as the villain. I don't think of 'Hamlet' as the villain. I don't think of 'Travis Bickle' as the villain.
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If the FBI gets the 'back doors' it wants, Internet services would be required to create a massive online infrastructure for law enforcement to spy on members of the public.
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When I first came into the league, I followed my parents for everything. Now, I'm really doing stuff on my own.
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I adored my father.
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The Taliban has not, in my judgment, in any significant way changed their fundamental goal and objective, which is to take over Afghanistan and return to running that country. It doesn't mean that we shouldn't have negotiation talks with them. I think we should. But we've got to be clear-eyed about it.
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I was the first and only person in my family to go to university, and I spent two decades redesigning myself: even my voice is the product of elocution lessons.
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Sugar crystallizes something in our American soul. It is emblematic of all industrial processes. And of the idea of becoming white. White being equated with pure and 'true': it takes a lot of energy to turn brown things into white things. A lot of pressure.
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Hope is the bedrock of this nation. The belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be.
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We the Chinese nation have the spirit to fight the enemy to the last drop of our blood, the determination to recover our lost territory by our own efforts, and the ability to stand on our own feet in the family of nations.
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If we are serious about peace, then we must work for it as ardently, seriously, continuously, carefully, and bravely as we have ever prepared for war.
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In another's eyes I'm afraid that I can't seeThis picture perfect portrait that they paint of me.They don't realize and I pray they never do,'Cause every time I look I'm seein' youIn another's eyes.
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A man of pleasure is a man of pains.
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I'm sorry about the phone call; and waking you.I know that it is late,But thank you for talking, because I needed to.Some things just can't wait.
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Jejunis nil scribo: meum post pocula si quislegerit, hic sapiet.Sed magis hic sapiet, si dormiet: et putet istasomnia missa sibi.
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Waking among the dead, one wondered if one was still alive. And yet real despair only seized us later. Afterwards. As we emerged from the nightmare and began to search for meaning.
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When I was younger, I was addicted to the idea of becoming a rapper.
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I grew up as one of the few Jews in Edison, and I had people tell me they hated me because of my religion.
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It's funny: the one time I got star-struck was when I met Snoop Dogg. I gave him a hug and said, 'I love you, man.'
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I love the deadpan. It's such a strong go-to. It lets the audience make their own decisions about what you're thinking.
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Critics... They're like traffic cops. They say what they have to say, then leave, and another guy moves in ,and he has his say - and it's often just the opposite. The result is either critical acclaim or critical murder, and neither has any bearing on my music or direction.
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To keep that absolute freedom we cannot be obliged to anyone.
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I read it [history] a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all — it is very tiresome: and yet I often think it odd that it should be so dull, for a great deal of it must be invention.
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There is nothing so absolutely bracing for the soul as the frequent turning of one's back on duties.
