Annie Besant Quotes
A prophet is always much wider than his followers, much more liberal than those who label themselves with his name.
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As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
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Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.
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You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.
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I'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but if I look back at my life, I was often happiest when I had very little.
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TV has grown so much. It is like a powerhouse medium.
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I can't avoid the interest in the fact that I'm an injured female soldier.
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The common thread in all my projects is 'girls being awesome.' Can we make that a genre?
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An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.
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There's a lot to be said for not displacing people.
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Everyone in the United States asks me about being a woman CEO. To be honest, it has had no impact on my career. While I was at BCG, it didn't matter whether you were a man or a woman. The only thing that mattered was that you were good at your job.
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Belief contains so many truths pertaining to God's Names and the realities contained in the universe that the most perfect science, knowledge, and virtue is belief and knowledge of God originating in a belief based on argument and investigation.
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We still have a lot of work to do in American culture. More open-mindedness is happening - in some cases rapidly, in some, slowly.
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Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.
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I read extensively about serial killers and all sorts of things people get up to.
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years.
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It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests.
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If you're not working, you might as well be dead.
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I don't like everybody who I see on TV.
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As I always said: I fell in with David Jones. I did not fall in love with David Bowie.
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Well, there are two kinds of happiness, grounded and ungrounded. Ungrounded happiness is cheesy and not based on reality. Grounded happiness is informed happiness based on the knowledge that the world sometimes sucks, but even then you have to believe in yourself.
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I briefly thought of becoming a priest but quickly saw that would be ridiculous.
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I still play jazz, and I've always got that trumpet very handy, but I'm coming to feel the classical venues are where my main focus is, in the realm of symphonic pops.
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A prophet is always much wider than his followers, much more liberal than those who label themselves with his name.
