Germaine Greer Quotes
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
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I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect.
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Managers are the most creative people in the world.
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I believe in 'soulmates,' especially growing up and seeing how much my parents loved each other. They always said that they had been married in past lives, too.
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My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.
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This is not a political issue. I know Florida's leadership has talked about a real commitment to helping our veterans. Now it's time for them to show it.
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I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.
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Asia is the continent rhythm forgot. At best Asian music is off-brand American pop, like Sonny Bono in a karaoke bar. At worst Asian music sounds as if a truck full of wind chimes collided with a stack of empty oil drums during a birdcall contest.
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Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.
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Thus, our national circulating medium is now at the mercy of loan transactions of banks, which lend, not money, but promises to supply money they do not possess
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Any nitwit can understand computers, and many do.
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The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.
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A leading scholar of Basra visited Rabi'a al-Adawiyya while she was ill.
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The work of the preacher resembles that of the sower. Like the sower, the preacher must sow good seed, the Word of God.
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I was so deeply involved in music, I had already outgrown all the pressure of high school cliques and gossip.
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Each of these [bacterial] species are masterpieces of evolution. Each has persisted for thousands to millions of years. Each is exquisitely adapted to the environment in which it lives, interlocked with other species to form ecosystems upon which our own lives depend in ways we have not begun even to imagine.
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I may have said the same thing before...but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.
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A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.
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As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
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People don't speak of hunger when they know what it is to be hungry.
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After an All-Blacks surprise loss to the French in the 1999 Rugby World Cup: “The French are predictably unpredictable.”
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A workable and effective way to meet and overcome difficulties is to take on someone else's problems. It is a strange fact but you can often handle two difficulties-your own and somebody else's-better than you can handle your own alone. That truth is based on a subtle law of self-giving or outgoingness whereby you develop a self-strengthening in the process.
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The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.
