Margaret Deland Quotes

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.

Margaret Deland

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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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• A thousand for his love expired each day, And those who saw his face, in blank dismay Would rave and grieve and mourn their lives away- To die for love of that bewitching sight Was worth a hundred lives without his light. None could survive his absence patiently, None could endure this king's proximity- How strange it was that man could neither brook The presence nor the absence of his look!

  

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• You can't run a €10 million business the way you run a €1 million business.

  

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• Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

  

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• I follow my course with the precision and security of a sleepwalker.

  

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• We were all 16 and 17. When you're that age, you're just daydreaming all day. We had bands we loved - Green Day, Weezer, a lot of bands in the '90s - and we just wanted to have fun. We didn't overthink it too much.

  

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• Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.

  

  Margaret Deland
  • Spiritual
  • Sacrifice