Jane Austen Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The future is always the same, and that is to win trophies - next season, in two and three years.
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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For me, 'Atmosphere' was more about looking inwards and reaching out to people close to me. To emphasize the fact that I'm singing on the first single, this album is really more about me and songs that I've written instead of collaborating with people.
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I've been playing concerts for many years, and it's still as exciting as it was the first time. I hope that shows when I'm performing.
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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
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I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.
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Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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You're always going to have terrorism.
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It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.
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An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful.
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Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
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Students follow rules. Students complete assignments. The job of students - in part, at least - is to please their teachers. Now, I realize I may be exaggerating a little here, but basically I think I'm right: students do what they're told.
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I'm told I was born in Canada, but I was adopted, and I grew up in Maine and Massachusetts.
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In a world of commoditized knowledge, the returns go to the companies who can produce non-standard knowledge.
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Jokes spread around the world and embed themselves in our shared culture; the most resonant of them get lodged in the language in the same way as cliches or old wives' tales do.
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To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week’s newspapers.
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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
