Jane Austen Quotes
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There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.
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Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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The first album I ever owned was 'A Star is Born.'
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When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!'
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I think family is our reason for being. I was lucky to be born into a very close-knit family.
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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
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I have had enough of the sexist treatment of Sarah Palin... I call upon the McCain campaign to stop treating Sarah Palin like she is a delicate flower who will wilt at any moment.
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My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg.
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Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
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That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree. And so I got an indigenous tree, called Nandi flame, it has this beautiful red flowers. When it is in flower it is like it is in flame.
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I feel like trouble has followed me from the day I was born.
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I wasn't born, I was ordered from room service.
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We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
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My mother had a lot of phobias. She's pregnant with me and she was a very phobic person. So I was born into phobia, basically.
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It's been federal law for over two centuries that the child of an American born abroad is a citizen - a natural born citizen.
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I don't think my background in Zambia has really affected my lens because my classical training has been Western-style. But it's fantastically fortuitous to have been born African because I don't feel I have a vested interest to the U.S. or China or wherever.
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The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
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Our love was born outside the walls, in the wind, in the night, in the earth, and that's why the clay and the flower, the mud and the roots know your name.
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The music of the people is like a rare and lovely flower growing amidst encroaching weeds. Thousands pass it, while others trample it under foot, and thus the chances are that it will perish before it is seen by the one discriminating spirit who will prize it above all else. The fact that no one has as yet arisen to make the most of it does not prove that nothing is there.
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Everywhere bees go racing with the hours, / For every bee becomes a drunken lover, / Standing upon his head to sup the flowers.
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I think some people's comedy IQ's aren't as high as other people's, so they don't really know what's going on. Or they think they know what's going on, but they don't really.
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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.
