Emma Restall Orr Quotes
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I enjoy fashion and taking the effort to present myself well, and I'm glad that a lot of people refer to me as a 'Hijabster'. I'm not the greatest fan of the term, but I think girls everywhere should be confident in their own skin and be inspired to look and feel good inside and out.
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A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.
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One of the stupidest things we ever did was to take creative departments out of the agencies.
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I'm very happy and very excited when my adrenalin is going.
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Hell is the bloodcurdling mansion of time, in whose profoundest circle Satan himself waits, winding a gargantuan watch in his hand.
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You are judged on your last game no matter how many you have banked.
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But I wondered if all this kissing was a bad habit with him and me. The thing we did with our mouths instead of talking.
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The I is the soul, which endures.
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We need to dream big dreams, propose grandoise means if we are to recapture the excitement, the vibrancy, and pride we once had.
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I just like to take my time, have a cup of tea and read the paper. I don't like starting the day in a panic.
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We think it is part of history, this embargo, but we have to find a manner and the moment in which it can be done without any difficulty, any problem.
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All men by nature desire knowledge.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove's wing, Unsoil'd, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don't be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
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A pinch of praise is worth a pound of scorn. A dash of encouragement is more helpful than a dipper of pessimism. A cup of kindness is better than a cupboard of criticism.
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You answer your own questions.
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Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence, more than talents and accomplishments.
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The intellectual's struggle to deny the obvious is never more desperate than when reality is unpleasant and at variance with his preconceptions and when full acknowledgment of it would undermine the foundations of his intellectual worldview.
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Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.
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Every individual or national degeneration is immediately revealed by a directly proportional degradation in language.
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All that is obvious detracts completely from all that is not.
