Lydia M. Child Quotes
Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
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My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.
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I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.
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My target is to give everything, and only if we win the trophies will I be relaxed.
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I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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These are moments in your life to be cherished; they don't come around that often. To be flying around in a 'Game of Thrones' jet, to be greeted by massive enthusiasts.
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The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
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I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
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Let's cooperate and challenge the administration to cooperate with us because within the administration there are also moderates and people who are not fully comfortable with the tendencies that have prevailed in recent times.
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I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.
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I love girl power.
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The story and the characters of 'Girl Online' are mine.
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I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
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There is no liberty except the liberty of some one making his way towards something. Such a man can be set free if you will teach him the meaning of thirst, and how to trace a path to a well. Only then will he embark upon a course of action that will not be without significance. You could not liberate a stone if there were no law of gravity - for where will the stone go, once it is quarried?
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My American gay audience have continued to dance and sing to the music I make in a way that straight Americans haven't. I am grateful to them for that.
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I figure if I have one false start every ten or 12 years that I've been running, I probably won't false start again during my career.
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If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.
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Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.
