Jane Austen Quotes
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I'm kind of a crazy person about hand sanitizer. I carry the plain ones that smell like aloe, from Target or CVS.
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You kind of forget he's Peter Jackson in a way because he's so normal; he's lovely. It's like having a friend direct you, except it's Peter Jackson.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.
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Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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When the EPA says that property owners, farmers, and livestock producers must stomach higher costs, longer delays, and bigger headaches, it's up to Congress to put up a roadblock.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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I was very lucky: I started acting in this highly subsidized German theater world, so there was not so much job insecurity. We had great working conditions, long rehearsal times, well paid.
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I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.
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I don't think anyone wants to look in the mirror and say, 'I'm anti-woman.' They don't see themselves that way, and you can't treat them that way. But you have to tell the truth.
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I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.
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I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all.
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These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe.
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Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
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I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.
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I've always been interested in making movies.
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I will forever be proud to call myself a Bruin and will never forget the memories that were made here.
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The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?
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One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.
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There were some times when I just wanted to quit making music.
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The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse. By itself, the law can never create anything better. Establishing respect for the law does not automatically ensure a better life for that, after all, is a job for people and not for laws and institutions.
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I worked at the White House in the early Reagan administration at a time when the deficit rocket really started to take off.
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Time, time will heal the wound.
