Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes
Can never see two people contradicting each other without feeling wretched. Why contradict? Why argue at all? Only one’s Best-Beloved, one’s Closest and Most Understanding should be contradicted and argued with. How simple to keep quiet with all the rest and agree to everything they say.
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I had no expectations of white people at all.
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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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The future is much like the present, only longer.
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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
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I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
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If I can just be thought of as Omari Hardwick who had a really, really solid career, and whose work is appreciated in its own right, I think that would be a great legacy to leave behind.
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Most Americans probably have no idea how hostile anti-abortion sidewalk counseling outside clinics can be. There's a reason pro-choicers volunteer to escort patients as they make their way past angry crowds to the clinic door.
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I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.
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It's weird how people were always asking us, 'Are you real? Are you joking?' That seems like something Americans care about a lot. You can't answer the question 'Are you real?' If we're anything, we're documentary fiction.
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The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.
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I remember, as a kid, I'd follow the rooster and the chickens and watch what type of grass they'd eat. And me and my friends would eat that grass, like that was our lunch.
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I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal drummer. I mean, they're playing with the same amount of ferocity. It's not to say all jazz is like that.
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It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
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The less you do to beautiful food, the better it's going to taste. You don't need to mess with it all the time.
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Programmers can be lazy.
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I had a lot of conversations with my family, my close friends, with my pastor, with God, and kind of came to a revelation that maybe I should be honest with myself about who I am and let that person - this woman who has lived inside me for my entire life - finally have an opportunity to live.
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I do want to lose weight. But not because anyone is telling me to do it.
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The way I choose to live my own life rates time and space as real luxuries.
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People think, 'Jack, you do too much.'
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Can never see two people contradicting each other without feeling wretched. Why contradict? Why argue at all? Only one’s Best-Beloved, one’s Closest and Most Understanding should be contradicted and argued with. How simple to keep quiet with all the rest and agree to everything they say.
