Jane Austen Quotes
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Be cool and you'll be alright. That's rock & roll religion.
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Overall, the human brain is the most complex object known in the universe - known, that is, to itself.
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I think it's very easy to get caught up and think that how many hits you get in a magazine because you were seen out somewhere has anything to do with a director's opinion of you, and whether they could use you or not.
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Martyrs have been sincere. And so have tyrants. Wise men have been sincere. And so have fools.
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Pandemic influenza is by nature an international issue; it requires an international solution.
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Can I, just one time, play the good guy?
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I, perhaps, at that stage, had the kind of ambition that others may have had; you know, namely based on the concept that if you were trained the world was out there waiting for you to provide a certain kind of leadership and give you an opportunity. But with the Depression, I began to see that there were certain social forces over which the individual had very little control.
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I love when a director shows up with a lot of energy, and different ideas about how to change things and do it a different way. Once you get into series, sometimes you don't have that, so I certainly don't take that for granted when I get it.
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I want to be like a sunflower; so that even on the darkest days I will stand tall and find the sunlight.
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It's certainly a major thoroughfare across the United States, and to have it disrupted is not good news for commerce.
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The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.
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I am fascinated by quantum physics.
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The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases.
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I have yet to figure out whether it is I am that am crazy, or the world.
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If we do not know our own history, we are doomed to live it as though it were our private fate.
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Right now I'm trying to help my sister with her school situation, 'cause she's real smart. Besides me, my other brother's a lawyer... my parents stressed education a lot.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And it is best to fix our minds on that certainty, instead of considering what may be the elements of excuse for us.
