Jane Austen Quotes
...there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter of fact, plain spoken being, and may blunder on the borders of a repartee for half an hour together without striking it out.
Quotes to Explore
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I normally listen to Spanish music - well, Latin music. I like a lot of singers.
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I left Iran back in 1985. I lived in Turkey for a while, then I went to Germany. I joined a theater company there, and we toured the country.
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The beginnings of a forest is one of the ugliest things on the planet. It's bleak and your neighbours hate you.
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When you get into Louisiana, it really is like a different country in a lot of ways. The plants you see are a little different, like the weeping willows and the cypress trees that come up out of the bayou. And it's steamy hot.
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Whoso desireth to govern well and securely, it behoveth him to have a vigilant eye to the proceedings of great princes, and to consider seriously of their designs.
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Is power that-an emptiness?
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Always remember the last words of my grandfather, who said: 'A truck!'
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If you ask a million players who they would want as manager, they will come back with a top three list of Mourinho, Pep Guardiola, or Diego Simeone.
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My grandmother always taught me, 'If you don't have a home, family, and church, you don't have anything.'
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In the past, whistleblowers have had their desks moved to break rooms, broom closets, and basements. It's a clever punishment, good-government activists say, that exploits a gray area in the law. The whole thing can look minor on paper. They moved your office. So what?
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Jeff Wachtel, who was the main reason our show came back, and also got picked up to begin with, is from the New York theater.
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Think tanks do have points of view, and they are absolutely entitled to defend them.
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I don't like being away from home. That's one reason why I don't work as much as I used to [when I started my career], because so many things are on the road. I just don't want to be away from my husband, my dogs and my home. I don't sing that much any more because that also takes you on the road.
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That hurt me - that's what drove me into depression where I didn't care. Once I saw my grandmother and him, I lost all of what I had in me. I said, 'He's the reason she looks like that.' I'm still not out of it. I get real disturbed at night. Imagine this person you came out of the womb looking up to. It's just tough, man.
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Winston Churchill used to say that we, Americans, try every other option before we finally do the right thing. After everything else is exhausted we eventually do the right thing and I think that's true for Congress as well. And it's important for Americans to remember that politics has always been messy.
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Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.
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Since problems spill across borders, security anywhere depends on sustainable development everywhere.
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If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune.
