Laura Riding Quotes
I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious of need, responsibility of thinking-speaking with truth. I do not go about hunting 'truths.'
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I think country needs to have a sporting culture. I think if sports were taken as curriculum in school and are encouraged in right way like government of Maharashtra and Haryana have done given Marks for Sports and encouraging them with good jobs.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.
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It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
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It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love.
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Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
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Whatever you are doing, give it all of your attention. Prioritise what you're going to do carefully, and then be in the moment.
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A lot of times when you play... you get this adrenalin that blocks pain.
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My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.
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It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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I always felt that Jay Z, if he had a different upbringing, could be on Wall Street or in politics. If you really listen to Jay Z talk, he's kind of the smartest guy in the room.
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Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.
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Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.
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One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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People don't know much about what's going on on the ground in Iraq: what you see in the media is heavily censored.
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I grew up with classical music, and to a lesser extent electronic music, and that's where I belong, so to speak.
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You go to a technology conference or an engineering conference, there are very few women there. At the same time it's a blessing in the fact that you do get noticed. People tend to remember you as the only woman in the room 'who said that', or the only woman in the room who was an engineer.
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To deny political equality is to rob the ostracised of all self-respect; of credit in the market place; of recompense in the world of work; of a voice among those who make and administer the law; a choice in the jury before whom they are tried, and in the judge who decides their punishment.
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Very, very often in movie sex you see this fiction about unity. A union. That somehow these two thinking beings become one, and there's one action and they're sort of perfectly in sync, and the lighting's perfect, and they've got their eyes closed, and they're gone, you know? And then you cut to someone having a cigarette. And it's all so much Novocain. Meanwhile, those of us us watching it are going "I'm never going to tell anybody, but I never have sex like that".
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I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious of need, responsibility of thinking-speaking with truth. I do not go about hunting 'truths.'
