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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You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall and let it play there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Barack Obama will still emerge as the next president of the United States.
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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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It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.
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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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The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.
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The art of government is not to let me grow stale.
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Jon Bon Jovi is remarkable.
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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.
