Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes
Oh! why should woman ever love,Trusting to one false star above;And fling her little chance awayOf sunshine for its treacherous ray.
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The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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It's time to bring a change because the world is changing. Let's open our minds and live in present.
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Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.
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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
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Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?
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I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.
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I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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The important thing is to be there, score when needed. It's better if the goals are beautiful, better still if they are important.
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I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
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I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.
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Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.
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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
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I was fascinated by fairies when I was growing up, and I wanted to see one dreadfully.
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When a loved one passes, there are mixed emotions, and a thirst to live one's own life more deeply can certainly be among them.
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When you're growing up, you realize you've got a lot of heavy things on your shoulders.
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While receiving radiation treatment for a thyroid illness, I had refused to take beta-blockers - a medication that would have eased its side effects - because they were deemed illegal by the sport's governing body, the International Association of Athletics Federations.
Gail Devers -
Cradle of Letters ! Mistress of the World !Soil of the Sun ! Italia! I salute thee !How oft the human race have worn thy yoke.The vessels of thine arms, thine arts, thy sky !
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Sitcoms routinely portray women hitting men, almost never portray men hitting women. When he fails to leave, it is not called 'Battered Man Syndrome'; it is called comedy.
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I particularly like Shah Rukh Khan's style. He is very laid back and very comfortable with whatever he carries.
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Oh! why should woman ever love,Trusting to one false star above;And fling her little chance awayOf sunshine for its treacherous ray.
