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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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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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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I tried all kinds of sports when I was a kid, like soccer and tennis and golf, and, in fact, started skating to be able to play hockey.
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I don't ever try to make a serious social comment.
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Although I am not myself a devotee of bigness for bigness sake, I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.
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There is a beauty to touring - to be honest, there's a way that music connects and you really feel the actual reaction of people to the music that you're making, and I feel like if I didn't do that I just wouldn't know, and I don't think my music would be the same.
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For years she had been able to be happy only by forgetting happiness.
