Jane Austen Quotes
Dearest, loveliest Elizabeth! What do I not owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I was properly humbled.
Quotes to Explore
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Number 4 should have been number 1. Thanks, Honey.
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I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.
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Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.
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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.
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You don't get to the highest levels of the sport without having the basics in order.
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I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.
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Always follow your own path.
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The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which in 1996 set out to ban nuclear tests, is an important step, but we need to do more - and we can.
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And so there I was living in California from Brooklyn, New York, and it was this whole new world for me and I was meeting vegetarians. I thought, let me try this vegetarian thing. I got really into that.
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My parents raised me to believe that when one door slams in your face, turn around because there's probably another door opening up somewhere.
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I tried all kinds of sports when I was a kid, like soccer and tennis and golf, and, in fact, started skating to be able to play hockey.
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Starting my career as a kid, I was doing what jobs I got.
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And wouldn't we be better off if every New Year's, we thought about the things we did right and we resolved to keep doing them, no matter how wacky they were.
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If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.
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In the beginning was the Lie and the Lie was made news and dwelt among us, graceless and false.
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If there is no possibility for change in a character, we have no interest in him.
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Every failure is a blessing in disguise, providing it teaches some needed lesson one could not have learned without it. Most so-called Failures are only temporary defeats.
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If it were customary to send daughters to school like sons, and if they were then taught the natural sciences, they would learn as thoroughly and understand the subtleties of all the arts and sciences as well as sons.
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All things – great, small, good, bad, friend, enemy—should be a lesson, not an obsession.
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Dearest, loveliest Elizabeth! What do I not owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I was properly humbled.
