Jane Austen Quotes

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

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• I met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I'm talking about just for the league itself.

  

  Magic Johnson
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• I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get that, and go for the simple songs, but I prefer something a bit more complicated, which is more meaningful to the creator.

  

  Irwin Thomas
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  • Great
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• For me, for the type of addict I am, when I start getting those swirly thoughts and stuff, and they talk about slippery places, slippery people and slippery things, you know, I need to - I needed to take my cell phone and eliminate all the phone numbers, change the phone numbers so no one I knew before could call me or reach me.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
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• People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
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• These trees and these old people have one thing in common, they're both going in the ground soon!

  

  Bam Margera
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  • Trees

• It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like sausages: you don't know what they really are until you cut into them.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
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  • Economics

• I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world.

  

  Tadao Ando
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  • Believe

• Redlining went beyond FHA-backed loans and spread to the entire mortgage industry, which was already rife with racism, excluding black people from most legitimate means of obtaining a mortgage.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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  • Black
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• I can be more cold than people would like me to be.

  

  Maelle Gavet
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  • Me
  • Cold

• Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • People
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  • Long

• It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • People
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• I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have to study people who came before you. You don't have to mimic anybody. You just have a gut feeling inside, an instinct that tells you what's right for you, and you can't do it in any other way.

  

  Barbra Streisand
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• The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.

  

  Dan Quayle
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  • May
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• Even through 'Get Smart' or 'She's Out of My League,' I have yet to have that instant recognition and at such an early stage, where people totally didn't know my name, but they knew my face immediately.

  

  Nate Torrence
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• I was the one who was always calling people.

  

  Nancy Reagan
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  • Always
  • Calling

• People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
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  • World
  • Believe

• I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other people's desire for me to do well.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • People
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  • Desire

• The thing is, when we do fight scenes, when we kill people in the movies, they bring in experts to choreograph it bit by bit, because you can't really kill someone, and you don't want to really hurt them.

  

  Annabella Sciorra
  • People
  • Hurt

• One of the most delightful parts of being a writer is connecting with people via social media. I devote ten minutes out of every writing hour to Twitter, Facebook, Goodreads, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and other sites. I don't use assistants for that. It's me and all of my friends, fans, readers, and colleagues on the crazyboat.

  

  Jonathan Maberry
  • People
  • Writing
  • Friends

• There's something very strange about Sherlock Holmes, especially if you're an English schoolboy. When you read the stories, they stay with you forever.

  

  Anthony Horowitz
  • Forever
  • English

• Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
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  • Abuse

• Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
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  • Up
  • Money

• There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

  

  Jane Austen
  • People
  • Loving
  • Notion