Jane Austen Quotes
There was no being displeased with such an encourager, for his admiration made him discern a likeness before it was possible.
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Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I'm not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.
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I work with some of the funniest writers in the country.
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I would probably say that being a commissioner in sports is one of the hardest jobs in the world.
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I've known Mark Hughes for half a lifetime. We joined Barcelona in the same summer of 1986, played together under Terry Venables and Luis Aragones, and have kept in touch ever since.
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I'm always flattered when someone thinks of me as a potential commissioner of baseball.
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On March 12, 2004, acting attorney general James B. Comey and the Justice Department's top leadership reached the brink of resignation over electronic surveillance orders that they believed to be illegal.
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We think about time as something not to waste, not as something to invest.
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Plumbing is usually boring.
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The last thing the NFL wants to do is make problems for the colleges.
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It's really cool when, in every genre of music, you can listen to a song and know what era it was from.
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Everyone has the opportunity to do a horror film. There's something great about it as an actor. You have to go to places you'd normally never go and be put in situations you would never be put into. You don't get the opportunity in a lot of films to have this kind of acting. It's an interesting challenge.
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I try to create some stupid entertainment for really smart people that they don't feel too stupid watching. In 'Xanadu,' the biggest laugh was a reference to Achilles.
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To God, thy country, and thy friend be true.
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Brad got me this great thing for Christmas. It's a bookshelf that has a book on every religion. That's how we plan to raise our kids. Teach them about all religions. They can pick one or be a student of all of them. We'll celebrate Kwanzaa for our girl. We'll celebrate moon and water festivals for our boys. We'll take them to temples in certain countries. Also to church.
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I say to my team all the time that this is how I grew up: Always thinking that, at any minute, I could be unemployed. You have to scramble. You have to work hard and get ahead of things.
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Desiring is a part of dreaming.
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There is an old cliche, 'You can see the glass half empty, or you can see it half full.' You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right. But whatever you focus on, you're going to get more of. Creation is an extension of thought. Think lack, and you get lack. Think abundance, and you get more.
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The more a believer wishes to live the absolute call of God, the more essential it is to do so in the heart of human distress.
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Lovers should not separate from each other after making love without admiring each other, without being conquered as well as conquering, so that no feeling of satiation or desolation arises nor the horrid feeling of misusing or having been misused.
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To disclose too much of one's inventions and achievements is one and the same thing as to give up the fruit of one's ingenuity.
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Ours is a world which feels so unsettled and dangerous in large ways, whether its terrorism or global financial meltdown or climate change - huge things that affect us deeply, and yet things about which we can do, individually, very little.
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Your lungs are changed forever from your first cigarette.
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There was no being displeased with such an encourager, for his admiration made him discern a likeness before it was possible.
