Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes
Things were a little untidy, but what did that matter? It was possible to become the slave of things; possible to miss life in preparation for living.
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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There is no bore like a clever bore.
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I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.
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I'm engaged to Hollywood. If there's something I find I have to do, I'll do it. Otherwise, I'll just stay home and have a vacation.
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The discovery of personal whiteness among the world's peoples is a very modern thing - a nineteenth and twentieth century matter, indeed. The ancient world would have laughed at such a distinction.
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I strongly support SNAP and will continue to urge my colleagues in Congress to provide adequate funding to this important program.
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I say this in the spirit of feminist encouragement, but I think I'm pretty hot. I've got all the facial features, facing the right way, at the right end, and you can always paint over the bad bits with makeup.
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To all the parents out there, thank you for allowing me to be a role model for your children. I really, really do not take that for granted.
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A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.
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My typical morning involves some time on the treadmill, but obviously I skip that a lot. Mostly, I wake up, check my email, then get to work on the various interviews and questions and phone calls that come with being an author.
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I do endless chopping and preparing things. I really find that relaxing. I do a lot of thinking as I am chopping and cooking.
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We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.
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I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision we shall discover either a new and unbearable disturbance of the general peace or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television - of that I am quite sure.
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I am not asking anyone to accept Christianity if his best reasoning tells him that the weight of the evidence is against it.
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Secrecy is a compulsive reflex in this country. It strangles thought, delays scientific progress, and destroys integrity.
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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while.
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Mi pesadez viene de los precipicios.
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Greenpeace is the world's largest feel-good organisation now, and I can say that 'cause I am one of their co-founders.
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I would have really been disappointed if he wasn't here on the roster.
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It feels good being a restaurant owner because it's part of my dreams of being the biggest mogul.
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All my life I have fought corruption.
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We knew people in Cleveland who had been making movies for 20 years that nobody sees. Every couple of years, they make a little small movie on their own, and it goes to some minor festivals, and that's it. Four years later, they do it again. That's a fulfilling life for some filmmakers, and they're happy to work that way.
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Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.
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Things were a little untidy, but what did that matter? It was possible to become the slave of things; possible to miss life in preparation for living.
