Jane Austen Quotes
I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.
Jane Austen
Quotes to Explore
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My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: 'whatever makes you happy.'
Sally Hawkins
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Live TV would terrify anybody.
Hannah Simone
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I do a lot of speaking about energy and environment. But that's more a second job than a hobby. Hobby-wise, I love the outdoors - hiking, biking, kayaking, swimming, scuba diving. Because I spend almost all of my life in front of a screen, time in nature is especially important, I think.
Ramez Naam
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The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
Dag Hammarskjold
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Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture.
Tavis Smiley
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Marriage has made me safer.
Kate Winslet
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I like a mannish man: a man who knows how to talk to and treat a woman - not just a man with muscles.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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The white man, in his press, is going to identify me with 'hate.'
Malcolm X
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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Sometimes, things need to be so understated on film that I don't even see them as funny, which isn't my favorite style, comedically. When I watch film comedy, I like people that are a little bit more alive on the screen and wound up. I like volatility and unpredictability and other long words like those.
T. J. Miller
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I always believed that my work should be unfinished in the sense that I encourage people to add their creativity to it, either conceptually or physically. Back in the 1960s, I was calling for 'Unfinished Music,' number one, and number two, with my artwork - I was taking unfinished work into the gallery. And that's how I was looking at it.
Yoko Ono
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I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.
Jane Austen
