George Sand Quotes
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No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.
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Jersey gets a bad rap. Most people make an assessment of this state on the ride from Newark Airport into Manhattan.
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I've been playing my instrument since I was about three or four. That's when I started banging around on the piano, trying to be like The Beatles.
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Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.
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We should not underestimate the harm it would bring should it be published.
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My one thing is respect. I don't care about anything else. You should respect everyone around you - the people who work for you, peers. Be classy.
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I don't want to be famous or recognizable. I don't want to be critiqued about the way that I look on the Internet... I've been writing pop songs for pop stars for a couple years and see what their lives are like, and that's just not something I want.
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The stuff coming out of Silicon Valley is dorky. Like, it's not very sexy.
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I hate the thought of my children being glued to a screen. Children only play on computers all day because their parents let them.
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The bottom line is that when Senator Inhofe says, 'Global warming is a hoax,' he is just dead wrong, according to the vast majority of climate scientists.
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I'm probably most inspired by good street style that features items I already own; it's always great to see how another person wears something you have, which sort of reinvents it for you.
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I never, ever read the comments below an article on the Web. People are mean. I'm a human being.
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There are two qualities that make fiction. One is the sense of mystery and the other is the sense of manners. You get the manners from the texture of existence that surrounds you. The great advantage of being a Southern writer is that we don't have to go anywhere to look for manners; bad or good, we've got them in abundance. We in the South live in a society that is rich in contradiction, rich in irony, rich in contrast, and particularly rich in its speech.
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New ideas are one of the most overrated concepts of our time. Most of the important ideas that we live with aren't new at all.
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There's beauty in anger, and anger for me is a passion.
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You can not be the judge of another's wishes. If you love someone, you must believe that they know what is best for themselves.
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I've learned over the years that if you start thinking about the race, it stresses you out a little bit. I just try to relax and think about video games, what I'm gonna do after the race, what I'm gonna do just to chill. Stuff like that to relax a little before the race.
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What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
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When you think about such fine actors as Maggie Smith or Michael Gambon, they do all mediums. I think it would be quite sad and a bit dull just to have to stick to one. I like all of them.
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Heaven, Kiwi thought, would be the reading room of a great library. But it would be private. Cozy. You wouldn't have to worry about some squeaky-shoed librarian turning the lights off on you or gauging your literacy by reading the names on your book spines, and there wouldn't be a single other patron. The whole place would hum with a library's peace, filtering softly over you like white bars of light.
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You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.
