Jane Austen Quotes
If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I never will be tricked into it.
Quotes to Explore
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The Kiss scene was attempted three times. The first was in a peculiar spot of the fort on the ground level. It felt forced to me, and I knew right away that, in spite of what others were saying, it was dead wrong.
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My husband and I, when we had our five children and they were grown, we thought we were entitled to grandchildren. And so we were just expecting this to happen; of course, nothing was happening. And then we kept begging, bribing, cajoling, anything - threatening to adopt our own grandchildren - and finally, we got some grandchildren.
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Corporate corruption has ecological merits. It's helping to preserve that species known as Democrats - thought to be endangered as recently as the year 2000.
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I had a major bug for cities and for paintings and literature and all the things I thought went on in cities.
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As a little girl, I thought I'd like to get married on the beach. But I'm not the quintessential girl who had these sort of fantasies about that stuff.
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I had no trouble going from radio to TV - I just thought of TV as radio with pictures.
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The universal practice of closing the eyes of the dead may be thought to have originated in the desire that he might be prevented from seeing his way.
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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
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I thought Sarah Palin was the ultimate expression of comic outrageousness in a person.
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Scientists didn't discover the noble gas helium - the second most common element in the universe - on Earth until 1895. And they thought it existed in minute quantities only, until miners found a huge underground cache in Kansas in 1903.
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I studied communications, only because I could get my own show on the campus radio station. I never thought of it as a career. Music was always a really passionate hobby - it was like collecting DVDs or stamps.
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My father was a socialist, so he would have thought that I shouldn't be a dame.
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People thought we were a joke because we got noticed so fast.
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A couple of my friends started having babies, and I thought, 'Maybe one day, with the right guy.' I have to find the guy first.
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I went 59.9 sec. when I was 18 and thought, 'Hmm, that was fast - let's see how much faster we can go and what the rest of the world can do to keep up.'
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Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.
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When you have somebody like a Donald Trump - he made no bones about trying to disprove Barack Obama's Americanism in trying to make him out to be some foreigner that was born in Kenya. I thought that to be very racist.
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Yes, gymnasts aim for perfection, but I never thought about the score. If that's what's in your mind, it will probably mess you up.
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Because I saw my parents relaxing in armchairs and reading and liking it, I thought it was a peaceful grown-up thing to do, and I still think that.
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I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead.
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There is no guarantee what will give you happiness any which way. I know many married people who are unhappy.
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The winged words uttered in this House have gone forth to the world, on their mission of good or of evil.
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You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.
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If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I never will be tricked into it.
