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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We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.
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My style Offset. Straight up Offset. Ain't nobody like me. It's who I am.
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The matriarchal society 1300 years ago in Egypt was a peaceful society; that's where you had no war for thousands of years! When they switched to patriarchal society, when the male energy ruled, we became obsessed with the greed. Now we are in this time of intense greed!
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With every job I watch, I can't find peace with what I've done. It's never good enough in my mind. I will never be happy if I'm in that mindset, unless I get a review that starts: 'Once in a generation.'
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I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
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For years she had been able to be happy only by forgetting happiness.
