Jane Austen Quotes
Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.
Jane Austen
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You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.
Madonna
Breakfast Club
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I really like funny women. I'm drawn to women like Tina Fey and Amy Poehler and Kristen Wiig, Amy Schumer. They're writers, they're producers, they're actresses. They're brilliant, funny, excellent women.
Zoe Foster Blake
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There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?
Iris Chang
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My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.
Youssou N'Dour
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That's the mantra I use when the team tells me something is too complicated. People keep saying, 'We need more prioritization.' I say, 'Guys, what you want is less work. And that is not going to happen.'
Maelle Gavet
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Man must be in space - that is what we are destined for. There is nothing else that we can do.
Majel Barrett
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They're just my weaknesses. Everyone is just constantly talking to me about it. It doesn't help.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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What makes an officer's job all the more difficult, dangerous, and demanding is that it rests on upholding that sacred trust with citizens that he or she serves. Nevertheless, I ask every officer in Chicago: reflect on your work, your training, your experience and - to be honest - about the fears and frustrations you bring to that job.
Rahm Emanuel
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It's time Hawaii answer doubters and produce documents proving that it is a state. What are they hiding? And why haven't we seen these documents?
Adam McKay
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Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
Quincy Jones
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I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending the insane war on drugs, restoring gun rights, and reducing the federal government to just its constitutional functions.
Harry Browne
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It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.
Barbra Streisand
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Of all the kind of pains, the greatest pain is to love and to love in vain.
George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
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Virtue also depends on ourselves. And so also does vice. For where we are free to act we are also free to refrain from acting, and where we are able to say No we are also able to say Yes; if therefore we are responsible for doing a thing when to do it right, we are also responsible for not doing it when not to do it is wrong, and if we are responsible for rightly not doing a thing, we are also responsible for wrongly doing it.
Aristotle
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There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.
Honore de Balzac
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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
Moliere
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Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.
Jane Austen
