Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Really, to me, a really good evening would be a comedian, followed by a band, followed by a really good DJ.
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If you want to do something different, you're going to come up against a lot of naysayers.
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I have loved 'Les Miz' for so long. It was the first Broadway show I'd ever done.
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Strong racial pride always entails intense awareness of an inferior other. For the North Koreans, foreigners are inferior - even the friendly ones.
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I had so many unsold murder pictures lying around my room...I felt as if I were renting out a wing of the City Morgue.
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...serious difficulties don't vanish by themselves, they are standing around your bed when you open the eyes the next morning.
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One can get used to ugliness, but never to negligence.
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Brown people and black people and red people swarmed through our great halls, until those who were white looked simply faded-out human beings beside them. Indeed, I came to see that white is not a color in skin any more than in textiles, and if it had not quality, it had no value even for humanity. I saw that color in skin had a certain advantage in strength and warmth as a means of beauty.
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We will continue working to resolve the needs ... that have been accumulating for many years, even for centuries.
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Most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity.
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Anything that we have to learn to do we learn by the actual doing of it; People become builders by building and instrumentalists by playing instruments. Similarily, we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
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Mysticism is in fact the only criticism people cannot level against my theory.
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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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Without pay, no human being will work up to their ability if he or she is not cared for and respected.
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It's hard to remain patient when it seems so debilitating to do so. The balance comes with staying ambitious while being patient.
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You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
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My ideas were confused. In a peculiar way, the unreality of the outer world appeared to be an extension of my own disturbed state of mind.
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Myrnin: ‘Have we been introduced?’ Frank: ‘Probably not. Why, you asking me out, sweetheart?’ Myrnin: ‘You’re not my type, darling.
