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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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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A loveless world is a dead world.
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My family made it through Hurricane Sandy. We have water, power, and a roof, but the survivor's guilt makes me want to hide. Sneak away from the brilliance of life. It shouts at me: 'Don't enjoy anything too much; people are suffering.' I feel childlike somehow.
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I'm so grateful to have been raised on love and to be so in love with my wife.
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When Coltrane died, a void appeared in this music that has not been filled yet. He maintained a forward motion in his work and did not look back.
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Love sometimes gets tired of speaking sweetly and wants to rip to shreds all your erroneous notions of the truth that make you fight within yourself, dear one, and with others, causing the world to weep on too many fine days... The Beloved sometimes wants to do us a great favor: Hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.
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Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
