Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.
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When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.
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I've been told by journalists that Facebook is upset anytime we're mentioned.
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When it was over my daughter said, 'Oh, I felt so sorry for him - he didn't want to hurt you, he liked you.' That was Victoria. When you visualize him up there on top of the Empire State Building, you do feel sorry for him.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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I always try to be true to who I am and just be myself.
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I know that I'm definitely not a big big snob, and I know that at the times that I am a diva I know I'm being a diva. It's kind of annoying to know that you are. Because it's a person I do not want to be. So I'm trying my best not to become a jerk.
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I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.
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You know, I want to help my country. Definitely I can help them, simply by winning races. Sure, they can follow my path to a good career. But for me it is not enough. I want to be more than that. In everything I want to be a role model.
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There's no way to reconstruct reality. It happened once. What you do is reinterpret and recreate. Even if you have the person who lived it and did it next to you, the event happened just once.
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I can say without hesitation that there is certainly no greater show to be a contestant on than 'Price' - the prizes can be huge, and the whole world loves and watches the show. It's an American institution!
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Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us.
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To blame the existence of al Qaeda on poverty like Egypt's is a slur on the poor.
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Its designers drew inspiration from three related traditions: the architecture of the Mughals' central Asian homeland; the buildings erected by earlier Muslim rulers of India, especially in the Delhi region; and the much older architectural expertise of India itself.
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'Socialism with a human face'? ... Frankenstein also had a human face.
Garry Kasparov -
The greater the emotional intensity, the greater the simplicity.
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You must have something new in a landscape as well as something old, something that's dying and something that's being born.
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Most people assume that a muse is a creature of perfect beauty, poise and grace. Like the creatures from Greek mythology. They're wrong. In fact, there should be a marked absence of perfection in a muse--a gaping hole between what she is and what she might be. The ideal muse is a woman whose rough edges and contradictions drive you to fill in the blanks of her character. She is the irritant to your creativity. A remarkable possibility, waiting to be formed.
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I guess people recognize me, but I'm not a household name. Two out of every five people who come up to me know my name. The one thing I don't want is to be followed by paparazzi.
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Mark Twain is as big as America. He really is.
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I call Sally Field 'America's Mother!' She is incredible to watch.
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And Chaucer, with his infantineFamiliar clasp of things divine.
