Jane Austen Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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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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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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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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I like to challenge myself not to be negative, because it's easy to take comedy to a negative place and criticize the outside world. Trying to praise something through comedy or be appreciative and making jokes about it is more challenging than cutting things down.
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Culture is a simplification and a lie. It's the currency by which fools navigate the world. Smart people get beyond it.
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If I think I'm going to get into trouble I always say that I'm sick.
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I do wear suits all the time.
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Experiments with animals have long been handicapped by our anthropocentric attitude: We often test them in ways that work fine with humans but not so well with other species.
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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
