Jane Austen Quotes
You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.
Quotes to Explore
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I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.
Barbara Kingsolver
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The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women's role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.
Gail Collins
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I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I'm a board member of Oceana, the world's largest international organization dedicated to ocean conservation.
Ted Danson
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People who don't know me look at my world as something very hard-core, and I don't feel it that way. It's not what attracts me.
Raf Simons
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The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.
Frances Farmer
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An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.
E. F. Schumacher
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
Odell Beckham, Jr.
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Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.
Rachel Corrie
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I just don't eat too much. That's never been my problem.
Gary Cole
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I have always liked to get my pictures taken, and I like taking care of my looks. But, I am not one to use beauty products and treatments.
Vijender Singh
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The gratification of desire is not happiness.
Daisaku Ikeda
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Starting in the 1970s, American cars started to lose market share to foreign cars. It was clear what was happening - these better-made foreign car companies were encroaching on the U.S., and the U.S. car makers had less than half of their own country's market.
Ira Glass
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I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.
Yo-Yo Ma
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I studied in a medical college and qualified myself as a medical graduate.
Taslima Nasrin
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Being elected to the Hall of Fame is about your career pretty much and your impact on the game.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
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I appreciate when people enjoy my work, but I don't like being recognized in public.
Gabriel Basso
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
Lara St. John
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I don't think the woman in French 'Vogue' was an object. She was always a real woman.
Carine Roitfeld
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We obtain better knowledge of a person during one hour's play and games than by conversing with him for a whole year.
Plato
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Even though it was the 70s, we found old stocks of clothes that had never been worn from the 50s and took them apart. I started to teach myself how to make clothes from that kind of formula.
Vivienne Westwood
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You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.
Jane Austen