Gertrude Bell Quotes
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We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.
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I do like Hank Pym.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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If a man wishes to ensure the bad opinion of others, his best course probably is to be honest about himself.
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I like to listed to the adventurous guys - the Coltranes, Miles Davis, the guys who just let it loose.
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I believe education is the backbone of strong technique, of creative expression, of confidence with clients, of feeling motivated and inspired, of success in any field of hairdressing.
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I have one desire: That is to have a principle-based, member-driven Congress. Period. That's what I want.
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In truth, it's not the shareholders of the American International Group who benefited most from its bailout; they were mostly wiped out. The great beneficiaries have been the creditors and counterparties at the other end of A.I.G.'s derivatives deals - firms like Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank, Societe Generale, Barclays and UBS.
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Humanism . . . is not a single hypothesis or theorem, and it dwells on no new facts. It is rather a slow shifting in the philosophic perspective, making things appear as from a new centre of interest or point of sight.
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What woman, however old, has not the bridal-favours and raiment stowed away, and packed in lavender, in the inmost cupboards of her heart?
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I am unlikely to trust a sentence that comes easily.
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That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is....Most people love you for who you pretend to be....To keep their love, you keep pretending – performing. You get to love your pretense...It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act...
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When you get locked up, you get locked out.
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Old dogs can be a regal sight. Their exuberance settles over the years into a seasoned nobility, their routines become as locked into yours as the quietest and kindest of marriages.
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But we danced, under wigs and between unfinished walls, through broken promises and around empty cupboards.
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My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.
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It's wonderful to work with someone with mentor status.
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The dead are the only people to have permanent dwellings.
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Muslims have to give up three things if they want to become Europeans: They have to bid farewell to the idea of converting others, and renounce the Jihad. The third thing they need to give up is the Shariah, which is the Islamic legal system.
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There were certain things that I watched, and I screened a series of period films as well, not because I wanted to copy those, because I wanted to be different. “Far from the Madding Crowd” was one I looked to because I thought it looked so good. “Doctor Zhivago.” Unrequited love is always a great thing. “Tess” was something I looked at, I thought Polanski got the period right.
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I will have no locked cupboards in my life.
