Fanny Burney Quotes
There's no nation under the sun can beat the English for ill-politeness: for my part, I hate the very sight of them; and so I shall only just visit a person of quality or two of my particular acquaintance, and then I shall go back again to France.
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I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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In our league, it comes right down to the end.
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I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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I entered the industry at very young age, and I was like any normal girl at the age of 17 or 18. At that age, most girls are a little plump.
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All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
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It feels like a simple human right to be able to be yourself, and yet, what trans people have to go through in order to get to there, it can be so complicated.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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For those who turn to literary biography for salacious details, 'Flannery' will disappoint. It is the biography of someone who had very little chance to live in the conventional sense, to experience events.
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I think I'll be single my whole life. It's entirely possible I'm going to end up alone. Because I don't want to make any sacrifices for my own development and achieving what I want to achieve, and I don't want a family to get in the way of that.
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Because my business life is so busy, my home is really my sanctuary. That is where I reflect and spend quality time with my girls.
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No man fails who does his best.
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I'll say anything to live.
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Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
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I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.
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I love people. And when you love people that much that you're disappointed in them every day, that love can turn to hate in a flash of a second.
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Time will bring healing.
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There's no nation under the sun can beat the English for ill-politeness: for my part, I hate the very sight of them; and so I shall only just visit a person of quality or two of my particular acquaintance, and then I shall go back again to France.
