Fanny Burney Quotes
I love and honour [Paulus Aemilius, in Plutarch's Lives], for his fondness for his children, which instead of blushing at, he avows and glories in: and that at an age, when almost all the heros and great men thought that to make their children and family a secondary concern, was the first proof of their superiority and greatness of soul.
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Winning the gold medal should have been the happiest day of my entire life, and it just wasn't. It felt like the saddest day of my life. Everyone was so angry with us, that Scott and I had fallen in love, because it was so unprofessional, and we were a disgrace and had betrayed everybody.
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Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.
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Ranger fans, they're expecting you to win, so you really want to show up every day.
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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
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Things that came before, people and things and experiences – that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace the new, but I don't forget the past, either.
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It's so important for startups to get their culture right at the start. They need to feel unique and that they are on their own important mission in the world.
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The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.
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When we cover a Chainsmokers song in our live show with ZBB, people are dancing and going crazy.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.
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When you have a chance to play a character people can relate to, it's rewarding.
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I really feel like I honed in on a sound and a style of writing that best fits me.
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Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.
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I'll work thirteen hours at a time producing a new track. Not a lot of people understand that - not girlfriends, friends, family.
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Got some, dirt on my shoulder, could you brush it off for me?
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Time is the best preserver of righteous men.
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The DNA of 'Deadpool' shouldn't change.
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I love and honour [Paulus Aemilius, in Plutarch's Lives], for his fondness for his children, which instead of blushing at, he avows and glories in: and that at an age, when almost all the heros and great men thought that to make their children and family a secondary concern, was the first proof of their superiority and greatness of soul.
