Margaret Deland Quotes
Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
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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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I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business.
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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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You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done.
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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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Part of me misses the days when we have four channels in England and we were all talking about everything all the time.
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Today, the biggest challenge we must meet is the one we present to ourselves. To not become a nation that places entitlement ahead of accomplishment. To not become a country that places comfortable lies ahead of difficult truths. To not become a people that thinks so little of ourselves that we demand no sacrifice from each other.
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I never felt I had anything to hide. I never felt being gay was anything to be ashamed of, so I never felt apologetic. I didn't have issues with it, didn't grow up with any religion, so I didn't have any religious, you know, issues to deal with as far as homosexuality is concerned. So, I accepted it very easily. For me, it wasn't that big a deal.
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Sell before the holidays. Stock prices tend to rise on the last trading day before major holidays.
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Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
