Jane Austen Quotes
Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!
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When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.
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I'm really about my family and really proud of being a Carter.
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I got to say 'Hi' to Dolly Parton, which my mom thought was kind of cool.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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It is true that when there's a drone attack, those - that the - the terrorists are killed, it's true. But 500 and 5,000 more people rises against it, and more terrorism occurs, and more - more bomb blasts occurs.
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I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever.
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In a unified and diverse Spain, based on the equality of and solidarity between its people, there is room for all of us. And for all of our feelings and sensitivities and our distinct ways of being Spaniards.
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With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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We're not going to make Evolution or any of our other products depend on Mono anytime in the near future.
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It's kind of funny, with all of the different outlets that come from acting that you could try, I would love to direct and kind of be involved in art direction, too.
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I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.
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Literature has become too psychological.
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But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.
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Smaller families mean we have more time and money to lavish on each child. Parents are more anxious because small families give them less experience of parenting and put their genetic eggs in fewer baskets.
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The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.
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The biggest challenge in New Orleans has been to find workers who can climb a ladder after lunch.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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Life itself is exponential.
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It is not part of the functions of the national government to find employment for people - and if we were to appropriate a hundred millions for this purpose, we should be taxing forty millions of people to keep a few thousand employed.
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Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.
