Anthony Trollope Quotes
Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder, the concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women's voices?
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I was quite thin, and I didn't have to worry until I had my appendix out and a mysterious metabolic change occurred.
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I like to go to Africa purely with something to do. I'm not very comfortable getting into an armor-plated Land Rover and going to see things, with my hand gel, you know, it's not me at all. So I like to hang out and you know, really get to know people and try and do something that resonates with them.
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My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.
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Virtual reality is a tough sell for a software developer. They have to convince investors that not only are they going to build a good game, which is what they normally have to do, they have to convince them that it's going to be a good game and that virtual reality will be successful.
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Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.
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Nantucket was a Quaker-based culture, so they were not readers. There's a great Nantucket-based novel from the 19th century that Melville read for his research for 'Moby-Dick': 'Miriam Coffin' by Joseph Hart.
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Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.
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I did not destroy the 43 volumes of my diary, which report on all these events and the share I had in them; but of my own accord I handed them voluntarily to the officers of the American Army who arrested me.
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It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
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The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.
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Still often interventionist, convinced of our importance in the world, even those of us born long after 1900 live in a country that is much more Victorian than we think.
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Early in my career, I sometimes found it difficult to make the tough people decisions - I had to learn that. In business, you want to listen. You want to learn. You want to make sure you're not proceeding without information. But if you wait too long, you can actually hurt an organization even more.
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I never liked the men I loved and never loved the men I liked.
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I feel sorry for people who only know comic books through movies. I really do.
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I don't know whether they will give me a project just because I am cooperative and behave nicely, but it really helps. I never demand for anything or never throw tantrums at work.
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When I started performing in public, I was probably around 10 or 11.
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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
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For many families, gift-giving is a major source of stress - the relentless commercialism, the whining demands, the financial pressure.
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Women are complex and subtle. Men are simple and direct.
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My genetic make-up is one of physicality. I'm a visceral guy.
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When I was a child, my father would read out loud to my brother, my mother, and me. Several times in the course of my childhood, he would read 'Alice and Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking Glass' over a few weeks. They were a great favorite with all of us.
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You don't come to live here unless the delusion of a reality shaped around your own desires isn't a strong aspect of your personality. A reality shaped around your own desires - there is something sociopathic in that ambition.
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Reading scripts or commercial copy isn't a problem for me, so I can really focus on the acting instead of it being secondary.
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder, the concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women's voices?
