Eliza Haywood Quotes
To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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The press in India, I believe, is more free, and happily so, than perhaps media anywhere in the world. Right? Which is a good thing.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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I couldn't speak any English when I first left Russia, and Intimissimi taught me everything. The team was like a family to me - they showed me how to model and how to stay in shape. They really believed in me.
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I could scrape water off horses all day long. That would never get boring.
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In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.
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Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality.
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I haven't chosen any party yet because people choose parties when they get older. When it's time, I'll look, and if I can't find one to join, I'll make another party.
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I do a lot for PETA. I do a lot of things I think are really important, I volunteer at school and I'm still amazed I can pay my bills because I feel like I don't work that much, I really don't.
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I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by pop culture.
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In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sneakily created a web of 'overpermiticisation' - requirements that were designed to stifle freedom of assembly and the right to petition government for redress of grievances, both of which are part of our first amendment.
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Anytime something eats too much of my life, I kill it.
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Fox News never calls up Bobby Seale to articulate a stance in opposition to right-wing conservatives. To me, giving the New Black Panthers a platform on Fox is a subtle tactic to scare people.
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Marriage can either be a classroom where people become wiser and better, or a prison where people become resentful; and bitter.
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My dream was to become a very small blonde movie star like Ida Lupino and those other women I saw up there on the screen during the Depression.
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Superstition, then, is engendered, preserved, and fostered by fear.
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To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.
