Maria Callas Quotes
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An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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My kids have never seen me scream at anybody. They've never seen an argument. There's never been even a cold silence. And those are things that I grew up with because my parents did end up divorcing.
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Sometimes, things just fall into your lap, and that's pretty incredible.
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My hairstyle is not common in India, where my parents come from.
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Letters should be easy and natural.
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I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.
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Whoever knocks persistently, ends by entering.
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For to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise.
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Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.
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Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.
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I always just thought if you see somebody without a smile, give'em yours!
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Mima. No despair. She was dying, and there was not one sign of despair in her dancing eyes.
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At Christmas time I sat on Santa's lap. His fly was open ! Boy what a present he gave me !
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Roman throats like the Zealots. Instead, if a Roman soldier backhands you with a blow...
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No lake so still but it has its wave. No circle so perfect but that it has its blur. I would change things for you if I could; As I can't you must take them as they are.
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When I recall my teachers at school, I realise that half of them were abnormal. . . . We pupils of old Austria were brought up to respect old people and women. But on our professors we had no mercy; they were our natural enemies. The majority of them were somewhat mentally deranged, and quite a few ended their days as honest-to-God lunatics! . . . I was in particular bad odor with the teachers. I showed not the slightest aptitude for foreign languages - though I might have, had not the teacher been a congenital idiot. I could not bear the sight of him.
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Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.
