Jane Austen Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.
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The brain abhors discrepancies.
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Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.
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I've never used my weight to get a laugh. That is, used my size as the subject for humor. You never saw me stuck in a door-way or stuck in a chair.
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I had $20,000, and I started up JYSK.
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I get some of my ideas from watching my three daughters, but most of them come from my own memories of growing up. I can remember how romantic I was, not just about love, but romance in the classic sense - the romantic ideals: of honor and truth, of loyalty, sacrifice and fairness. Those were the elements that made a story satisfying to me.
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Son, give 'em a good show, and always travel first class.
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My grandmother was the greatest cook in the world. She could just go in there, the whole kitchen would look like a tornado hit it and then she'd come out with the best food. Then she'd sit at the table and she wouldn't eat!
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It's easy to show off if you are making plays all the time. But it's not me.
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I don't believe in having spaces in the home that don't get used. We pay so much for square footage that to waste it is criminal.
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I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping.
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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
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When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well.
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There is no accountability in soft money. None.
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Being a public company is really terrible for most companies. I'd say Facebook and Google have done a pretty good job of standing up to the incredible quarterly pressure to hit numbers, but most companies - and I've observed a lot now - don't do a very good job of that.
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Every love story needs a catalyst of some sort.
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Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air.
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My goal is I want to create the 20-20-20 club: 20 sacks, 20 tackles for loss, 20 batted balls.
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I have had a lot of good things happen, but I've also had a lot of terrible things happen.
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Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.
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Certainly, light fiction exists and encompasses mysteries or second-class romance novels, books that are read on the beach, whose only aim is to entertain. These books are not concerned with style or creativity - instead they are successful because they are repetitive and follow a template that readers enjoy.
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When I was a teenager, I had a record company after me. They wanted me to be a pop act. They said they wanted me to be the next Sonia. I was 16 at the time. I said, 'No thank you.'
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Always take much less than you think you'll need.
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...a vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.
