Margaret Oliphant Quotes
For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it.
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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I'm not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
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If an organization values innovation, you can assume it's safe to speak up with new ideas, leaders will listen, and your voice matters.
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I take certain steps to make sure I'm relevant artistically. I always have new music and a reason to be on the road. I'm not just playing 'Get By' over and over. I have 12 albums.
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I think that liberals need to grow up.
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Our laboratory is a place that celebrates diversity and is totally open to all differences, not just sex but also age, ethnicity, religion and other traditions.
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Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
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People can't even imagine that it's possible to succeed anymore.
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I'm trying to encourage more women to be themselves, rather than what men want them to be. I don't believe in patronizing either sex.
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The Bible says, 'Judge not lest ye be judged.' Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.
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To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century.
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Some philosophical arguments (e.g., in connection with the mind/body problem) look pretty good, while others (e.g., those that criticize moral realism) do not.
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It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.
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It's so important which musicians we choose for being in the orchestra.
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For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it.
