Marguerite Yourcenar Quotes
The world is big … May it please the One who perchance is to expand the human heart to life’s full measure.
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Life isn't perfect, of course, but we all know it's how you react to things that counts.
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Every girl on TV, in real life, sure you want to meet that soul mate and fall in love and have the big thing, but until that happens, you gotta kiss a lot of frogs.
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Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously.
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My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.
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The ultimate vision is to instate in the Muslim world the notion of multiculturalism, which is part of our heritage and history, part of the fundamental, mainstream ideals of Islam.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.
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I don't like celebrities; I don't hang out with them; I don't relate to that life.
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It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.
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Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.
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It was failing part of my Ph.D. that led me into novel-writing. By then I was 29, had remarried and had a second baby. It struck me that I'd lost my path in life and I felt frustrated. That's when I started to write.
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I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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'The View' was so much fun. So much fun because the audience was 85-percent fans that wanted to be there celebrating 'One Life to Live' and the other 15 percent were crew members from 'One Life to Live'. It was just really, really wonderful and the clips were wonderful.
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I don't walk into the lab in the morning thinking, 'I am a woman, and I will carry out an experiment that will conquer the world.' I am a scientist, not male or female. A scientist.
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Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
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In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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There is only one instrument which is adequate to investigate the things of the spirit, and that is the Spirit itself. Just as it is necessary to train a man for scientific research in the physical world, so also is a long and slow process required to fit oneself for investigation of the spiritual world.
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We must be prepared to see an Association of Nations in conference growing into an organic system of world controls for world affairs and the keeping of the world’s peace, or we must be prepared for – a continuation of war.
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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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A narrow mind and a wide mouth usually go together.
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'Big Day Out' is one of our favourite festivals, it's such an eclectic mix of so many different things and it's really about music - which is what a good festival should be about. The reaction from the fans in that part of the world rivals our greatest territories and the kids are always very rabid and very appreciative of us being there, so we're super excited to get back.
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The world is big … May it please the One who perchance is to expand the human heart to life’s full measure.
