Beatrix Potter Quotes
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I'm from a very close-knit family, and there was something very... I guess you could say normal, about it, and I so appreciate that. We all ate dinner together every single night, and my mom stayed at home with us. I owe a lot to my parents.
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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
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How lucky am I?
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When I recently spent a night at a homeless shelter, I was dismayed that members of the middle class had moved in and that earning above the minimum wage did not protect adults from having to share a room with dozens of others.
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A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
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Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
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In general, certain conclusions are possible from these data. They fail to prove that psychotherapy, Freudian or otherwise, facilitates the recovery of neurotic patients.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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I've had Botox. It hurts a lot, but I like it.
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Being in my best shape, my conditioning, it's something I pride myself in.
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The hair department on 'Game of Thrones' is incredible.
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I met will.i.am in the studio and played him a couple of songs and he liked them. We're similar but there's nobody in my lane doing what I'm doing.
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I am going to keep having fun every day I have left, because there is no other way of life. You just have to decide whether you are a Tigger or an Eeyore.
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If you go to an elite school where the other students in your class are all really brilliant, you run the risk of mistakenly believing yourself to not be a good student.
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Come hell or high water, adopted or my own. I am going to have, I must have some kids.
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You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's.
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I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know – every audience has its own personality.
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Who said that artists should sell their soul, expose everything about themselves?
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Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration.
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The attribution of a speaker is in fact a part of the quotation. Some statements simply are better if a certain famous person said them.
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I don't think in terms of legacy or that kind of stuff. I've always thought that'll take care of itself if I did everything right on a day-to-day basis.
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The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.
