Margaret Deland Quotes
Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm very heterosexual, so dating women is something I'm not ashamed of. But my love life is not as exciting as it is reported to be.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
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I actually have a fear of the water because I nearly drowned. I got caught in a rip tide, and I wasn't a good swimmer because that was when I was emigrating from England to Australia.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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Every man is different. You can't generalize with men; you have to find out what your man wants. You have to listen to him when he's telling you what he wants, because a lot of times they're telling you, but you're not listening.
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I know there is something out there, and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad. But I'm not like Shirley MacLaine, who probably believes we were past lovers in another life.
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Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.
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I have glaucoma, so use eye drops both morning and night.
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Oh, I have to say Romana; she was much more fun to do but I did enjoy the Princess when she was turning bad.
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There are co-ed schools in Saudi, but those are American or British. My dad, of course, believed in the good old CBSE Indian school system and thus, my younger brother Ishmeet and I were put in an all-boys CBSE school. My mother could move out only if she wore a burkha.
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It's never crowded along the extra mile.
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You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.
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The only model to follow is pure Islam.
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Presence is more than just being there.
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He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
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Today we all give all our data away all day long while aiming to maintaining our privacy.
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But now I'm getting that spiritual motivation to visit Africa.
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I'm a sensitive guy; I respond to things that make my eyes well up a little bit, or make me root for people. I find the human condition interesting.
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You had to keep the mood up; you had to keep the tempo up. You had to keep the feeling of, "Hey, we're doing something that's really exciting. It's fun being with these people." And the more fun you have, the better you do it.
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Statistics are for losers.
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Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
