Anna Jameson Quotes
All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.
Quotes to Explore
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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I like a little bit of designer, with a bit of vintage and high street mixed in. I love it when you find those one-off key pieces, which end up becoming investment pieces.
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I'm only 26 - I don't know anything about life yet. Life is like a puzzle and my pieces are spread all over the world.
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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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I live a very normal regimented life that focuses on my training and my private life so I squeeze the insane stuff in around that.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
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I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.
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Every glass thermometer has subtle variations in the size and shape of the bulb at the bottom and the capillary tube inside, as well as variations in the width of gradations on the side. The compounded effect of these uncertainties is that each thermometer reads temperature slightly differently.
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I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.
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Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when you have some time off. You struggle with yourself to take a vacation.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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I've always wanted to work with dogs, so in high school, I worked at the Humane Society for a little while. I honestly think, even today, that would be the other career I would go into. Somehow I would be involved with animals.
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.
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I sent 'Hell or High Water' to Peter Berg, asking if he'd like to be involved.
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Asian people are very practical and come from a conservative world. The parents want their kids to be doctors and lawyers. There are casting calls for Asian children, but once the parents find out the children might miss school, they're opposed to it.
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We can help show data on how much the kids can improve when their home life changes a little bit.
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We definitely aren't going to put anything out unless we feel like we're growing. And I think because of the respect that we all have for each other, we kind of build up each other's confidence.
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All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.
