Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes
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I'm hard on myself. I'm my biggest critic.
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The proliferation of bans fuels stereotypes and discriminates against a community.
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I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.
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Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.
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Chelsea are a big club - we have to win titles and to qualify for the Champions League. There's a lot to do, but we'll try to do it all.
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I refuse to sit on my laurels.
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I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy.
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My mother's a psychologist, my stepfather's a psychologist, my stepmother is a therapist and my dad's a lawyer. So it was all prominent in my life. I don't know anyone who doesn't know someone on some form of prescription medicine.
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Music, it requires more than brawn. It requires a lot of heart. You gotta put love in there.
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Space is not just going up and coming back down again. Space is getting into orbit and being there, living there, establishing a presence, a permanence.
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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either party has emerged like a jagged rock from the receding tides of lust and curiosity.
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You can live constrained within the confines of a solely material perspective, or choose instead the infinite field of quantum possibility.
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We're not even going to discuss it. It's a basketball team and we've got to focus on what we need to do.
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Acting on the stage is a luxury for me. I lose money. I make movies for financial reasons and this allows me the luxury of acting on Broadway. Hollywood, unfortunately, exploits actors for their own reasons, which are usually financial. So we might as well exploit Hollywood as much as it exploits us.
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If I profane with my unworthiest hand This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.
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The time has already come when each country needs a considered national policy about what size of population, whether larger or smaller than at present or the same, is most expedient. And having settled this policy, we must take steps to carry it into operation. The time may arrive a little later when the community as a whole must pay attention to the innate quality as well as to the mere numbers of its future members.
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The intellectual treatment of any datum, any experience, any subject, is determined by the nature of our questions, and only carried out in the answers.
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The middle class is not doing well, and trade policy might have something to do with that, and so someone who is going to be fixated on those things, who has a business background, has some appeal.
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You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!
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In bed by herself: adorable condition.
