Jane Austen Quotes
...why did we wait for any thing? - why not seize the pleasure at once? - How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
Quotes to Explore
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I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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Look at Microsoft, Google, and Facebook. They have all entered many sectors, and actually, in many of those sectors, they weren't as early as Tencent.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
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If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.
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Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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I have had two knee surgeries on my right knee: that was my jumping leg that I jumped off for years and years.
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I think it's always a good idea to dress as someone you like, as long as it's done in good taste. That's the key.
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I must stick with Chinese language films.
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I'm a political conservative.
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I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
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There is nothing more exciting than having a life devoted to fundamental knowledge and to contributing to advance the borders of knowledge.
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I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something.
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Winners never quit and quitters never win.
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I love cities, and I love city governments in particular. But in politics it would have taken me 8 years from implementing a policy before I would get to see the feedback. With programming I could model the same policies and see the impact immediately. Technology is a far more efficient way to test.
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I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn't going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know.
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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.
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I always take photographs when I attend a funeral. Most people there know who I am and expect me to be there with my camera.
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I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.
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With the notion of marriage - an exclusive, emotional, binding 'til death do you part' tie - becoming more and more an exception to the rule given a rise in cohabitation and high rates of divorce, why should the federal government be telling adults who love one another that they cannot get married simply because they happen to be gay?
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I was so ashamed of who I was.
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...why did we wait for any thing? - why not seize the pleasure at once? - How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
