Anna Jameson Quotes
What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.
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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
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I don't mind having these relatives. I'll give them a little, since they all prayed for my victory.
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The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.
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I've written a few songs that have to do with being in a relationship, the bad and the good.
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I don't tend to set out on huge world domination goals or have anything in mind. I just like to play. I like to gig a lot; I like to write music.
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Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
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The minute I put my leg on a horse and say, 'Come on, let's go,' I absolutely believe that the horse and I can do it and that we will do it. And I am always shocked when we actually don't do it. If the analytical mind ever overrode that optimist in me, I'd be in some serious trouble.
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There is no such thing as a Mass Mind. The Mass Audience is made up of individuals, and good advertising is written always from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone.
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The thing with Stephen King is that everyone dies, and everyone comes back to life. So you never know with his mind where things go. It's the same with Steven Spielberg, too.
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If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.
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I'm so suspicious of our own understanding of the past. I just think that your mind plays absolute tricks on you and fools you every minute of every day. And so when you're talking about the past, you're talking about something that never happened. At least it didn't happen the way you think it happened.
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Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all.
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Obviously, a lot of things play on your mind when you're batting. This might happen and this might not. The best thing you can do when you're batting is not to think too much, and wait for the next ball.
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I went on tour with Beyonce before. I wouldn't mind doing something with her.
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Had 'Dhruva' not succeeded, I don't mind calling these films experimental.
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Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.
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Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
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Imprint deep upon your minds the principles of piety towards God, and a reverence and fear of His holy name. The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom and its consummation is everlasting felicity. Possess yourselves of just and elevated notions of the Divine character, attributes, and administration, and of the end and dignity of your own immortal nature as it stands related to Him.
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...the play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished andsquandered.
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Marylanders are among the nation's hardest working and most educated people. We have universities and schools that are among the best in the nation.
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Let us resolve to do the best we can with what we've got.
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Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.
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What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.
