Jane Austen Quotes

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

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• Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.

  

  Zac Brown Band
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• I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.

  

  Candice Bergen
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• I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
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• Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman' just rocked my world in the late '80s and early '90s. I couldn't read them fast enough.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • World
  • Late
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• I said if I have a No. 1, I'll do a naked photo shoot! I'm not sure a lot of people would like to see that, but it was more to the fans, really. Every gig I do, they try to get me to take my clothes off, so it's a promise to them - if I get a No. 1, I'll happily do a naked shoot.

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Me
  • Promise

• It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Mother
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• A teacher should have a creative mind.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Mind
  • Teacher
  • Creative

• I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.

  

  T.I.
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• 'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Me
  • Play
  • Lucky

• A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Want
  • Start
  • Studying

• Women are builders of civil society. We are the ones who are going to build it. You know why? We have no choice. Either you shut up, and you are humiliated, or you do what I'm doing. You scream.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Up
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• One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Home
  • Energy
  • Solar

• Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.

  

  Tcheky Karyo
  • Life
  • Comedy
  • Humor

• So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you - and fight alongside you - until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Done
  • Job

• Some players don't like training and I've seen some players who aren't bothered if they play or not. But I want to play every game. Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Want
  • Game
  • Rest

• I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Know
  • Nothing
  • Say

• My children receive education that greatly emphasizes the fact they are part of a human group that has tradition, collective memory, and a state. I am a great believer in the need for Israel to be a Jewish state. I certainly believe my children will pass that on to their children.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Children

• He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Call
  • Falls
  • Niagara

• Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Children
  • Purpose
  • Animals

• I understand that if I really need my hair to be nice, now I hire someone to do it, and I understand that putting on a pair of heels really makes a difference.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Nice
  • Hair
  • Needs

• Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below. Now my brothers call from the bay; Now the great winds shoreward blow; Now the salt tides seaward flow; Now the wild white horses play, Champ and chafe and toss in the spray. Children dear, let us away. This way, this way!

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • Great
  • Children
  • Blow

• I think I prefer producing a little more than DJing because you have more freedom, you can make anything you want; it doesn't necessarily have to be four to the floor. You can go more with your mood, or the atmosphere that you're in.

  

  Armin van Buuren
  • Freedom
  • Mood

• Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Great
  • Deal
  • Abundance