Jane Austen Quotes
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I think it would be nice to see more of an open culture to different music.
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I've done thousands of interviews in my life, and it's a format that I quite enjoy, because I think of questions in interviews as an opportunity to sort of gauge my growth in a way. It gives me an idea of how I'm navigating this world that I'm in.
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We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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I couldn't find anyone doing something about the astounding injustices women were experiencing, so I decided to do something myself. I cannot tell you how many people ridiculed my efforts.
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The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.
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All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.
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I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a bookseller and then as a sales rep and publicist and then various editorial jobs until I ended up with HarperCollins in Australia.
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Twice I let people talk me out of good ideas.
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I don't go to premieres. I don't go to parties. I don't covet the Oscar. I don't want any of that. I don't go out. I just have dinner at home every night with my kids. Being famous, that's a whole other career. And I haven't got any energy for it.
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For me, the making of exhibitions has always had to do with dialogue: a concentrated, in-depth, focused dialogue with artists, who keep teaching me that exhibitions should always invent new rules for the game.
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Fraai volk, de Duitsers. En daar behoorde ik ook eens toe!
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The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
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It is significant that one says book lover and music lover and art lover but not record lover or CD lover or, conversely, text lover.
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Just as there is a wage gap between men and women in the workplace, there is a 'leisure gap' between them at home. Most women work one shift in the office or factory and a 'second shift' at home.
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Unfortunately, some politicians think they are immune from allegations of ethics abuse.
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I wasn't talented as a musician.
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And old affront will stir the heart Through years of rankling pain.
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I like characters where there's something going on and something to make him real. If you find out what somebody cares about, all of a sudden, the whole world opens up.
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The art of government is not to let me grow stale.
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Physics is a hobby of mine, as much as a person of limited intelligence can understand physics.
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Just like the poles of a magnet, some people are drawn to death and others are repulsed by it, but we all have to deal with it.
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Whatever you lend let it be your money, and not your name. Money you may get again, and, if not, you may contrive to do without it; name once lost you cannot get again.
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I am excessively diverted.
