Beatrix Potter Quotes
All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
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Who cares and remembers if my last film was a success? I need to work harder.
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For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.
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I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.
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Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.
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The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.
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I was raised doing martial arts.
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I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.
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I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.
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Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
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As the numbers of native-born Europeans begin to fall, with their anemic fertility rates, will the aging Europeans become more magnanimous toward destitute newcomers who do not speak the national language or assimilate into the national culture but consume its benefits?
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George W. Bush, though a president's son, is cast as Reagan's heir even more than his father's.
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Soul was the music made by and for black people. For most of the Sixties it was thoroughly divorced from white popular music, but by the end of the decade several artists with their roots firmly in both soul and R&B traditions had crossed over.
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There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
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Strong winds buffet the sea oats and tall dune grasses, tossing sand and seabirds where it will, winding my sister's golden hair into sunlit spirals of silk until it becomes the only good memory I have of her -- the only memory I allowed myself to keep.
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
