E. M. Forster Quotes
What the world most needs today are negative virtues - not minding people, not being huffy, touchy, irritable or revengeful.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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People take things so seriously.
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It's great to play somebody's wife, but not all the time. There's so many other stories to tell.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
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I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
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Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
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Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.
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That's why I talk about the breast cancer: because I want women - and everyone - to stay on top of things and get checked. I know how scary it can be. When I dealt with it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I have so many other friends who have gone through it or have suffered a loss.
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I never want to be the woman that's telling other women what to do.
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Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.
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I don't know to what extent someone can BECOME an artist - you either are or you aren't - and if you are you'll HAVE to make your way to some kind of sickly light, no matter how terrible the soil you were seeded in your nature will out somehow.
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Statti col dolce in bocca; e non ti dogliaCh'amareggiare al fin non te la voglia.
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Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.
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What the world most needs today are negative virtues - not minding people, not being huffy, touchy, irritable or revengeful.
