Alice James Quotes
If I can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribbling my notes, and able to read the books that belong to me, in that they clarify the density, and shape the formless mass within, life seems inconceivably rich.

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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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There's no regrets for me.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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I am interested in shows that are not out-and-out gag fests: you see the truth of a broken heart behind them. That is what life is like: it's really funny, you see funny things as soon as you step out of the room, but underneath that is a whole bag of broken hearts. It's that real pain and that real hilarity that makes life so intriguing.
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Voting for a candidate for the DC circuit is very different from confirming someone to the US Supreme Court. I have been very clear that the Senate should not confirm any nominee in a lame duck session.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
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I'm kind of embarrassed by how quickly I adjusted to L.A. I really love it. It's so pleasant.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.
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I got a psychology degree from USC, but music is just my whole life.
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To lose your everyday life of surfing and being creative on waves, enjoying the ocean - that's scary to me. It was essential to at least try surfing again and get out there and see how it went.
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It's the same as any role and I find that you can't lump characters together; because they all have different life experiences, different reasons for being the way they are.
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Even though everybody's lives are different, in general we're all human beings, and we go through the same things: disappointments, the pleasures of life, life and death. That's always been a really big part of the show to me, making sure the audience feels connected, and that carries through to the album.
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They drove a long way through the snowy woods, till they came to the town of Pepin. Mary and Laura had seen it once before, but it looked different now.
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If I can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribbling my notes, and able to read the books that belong to me, in that they clarify the density, and shape the formless mass within, life seems inconceivably rich.