Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
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Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.
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There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
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I do want people to see me as a well-rounded actress, not just someone who plays in 'Turtle' movies.
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I have a few homes, and Los Angeles is certainly one of them.
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In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.
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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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I'm very good about eating breakfast, lunch and dinner.
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It's not fair for little kids to feel bad about themselves for how they look.
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There are different flavours of sexiness.
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O Woman, you are not merely the handiwork of God, but also of men; these are ever endowing you with beauty from their own hearts … You are one-half woman and one-half dream.
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Politicians can be cheered for the promises they make. Our country will be judged by the promises we keep.
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I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system.
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I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.
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It is the Nobel Prize I want. It's worth $400,000.
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'Believe what you like. You'll be surprised how comforting it is.''I ask no comfort,' Taran replied, 'but the truth, be it harsh or happy.'
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It's none of our business, the sexual preference of people. So, I hope if someone's thinking about it, that if they do come out as gay and are a professional football player, and it makes them happy, and it makes their life easier, then I think they should do it.
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I begin to suspect that the world is divided not only into the happy and the unhappy, but into those who like happiness and those who, odd as it seems, really don't.
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I'm conscious of my race and ethnicity in the legislature - it's hard not to be.
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Wall Street has too much wealth and political power.
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For years she had been able to be happy only by forgetting happiness.
