Jane Austen Quotes

I am certainly the most fortunate creature that ever existed!

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• Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that.

  

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• I train to fight, to win.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
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• Sometimes, I'm just a fan of the guy, and we'll switch jerseys.

  

  Calvin Johnson
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• Heights make my feet tingle; not sure if that is a phobia, but it isn't the greatest feeling.

  

  Charlie Rowe
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• We have to be concerned about future obligations.

  

  Olympia Snowe
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• Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn't stand it.

  

  Bela Lugosi
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• The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious. ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.

  

  Eleanor Porter
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• When people ask me what's my field? I say, on one hand, a fractalist. Perhaps the only one, the only full-time one.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
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• Sometimes you gotta work a little, so you can ball a lot.

  

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• When a man lies he murders some part of the world These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives All this i cannot bear to witness any longer Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home.

  

  Cliff Burton Metallica
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• ...have been here 20, 25 years, are integrated into the system, have children who are American citizens and, quite frankly, don't have a home to go back to in another country.

  

  Dennis Hastert
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• The spider is the chamberlain in the Palace of the Caesars The owl is the trumpeter on the battlements of Afrasiyah.

  

  Bill Vaughan
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• I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.

  

  Jack Roy
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• Beloved, we are always in the wrong, Handling so clumsily our stupid lives, Suffering too little or too long, Too careful even in our selfish loves: The decorative manias we obey Die in grimaces round us every day, Yet through their tohu-bohu comes a voice Which utters an absurd command - Rejoice.

  

  W. H. Auden
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• Trying to write music, be in a band and keep it all happening is one of the hardest, morale-destroying, heartbreaking things you will ever try to do - and that's when it's going well.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
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• Sometimes the future changes quickly and completely, and we’re left with only the choice of what to do next. We can choose to be afraid of it. Just stand there trembling, not moving. Assuming the worst that can happen. Or we step forward into the unknown, and assume it will be brilliant.

  

  Sandra Oh
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• I am certainly the most fortunate creature that ever existed!

  

  Jane Austen
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