Jane Austen Quotes
I am very much obliged to my dear little George for his message - for his love at least; his duty, I suppose, was only in consequence of some hint of my favourable intentions towards him from his father or mother. I am sincerely rejoiced, however, that I ever was born, since it has been the means of procuring him a dish of tea.
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Nothing is absolute in security.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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People sometimes recognize me here, but they are very nice.
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Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.
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I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.
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I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script. And that means that I need to do it, because the things that scare you only make you better and stronger.
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The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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My father was out of my life when I was pretty young - when I was 7 years old, he was gone. I didn't see him for the rest of my childhood.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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When I was a kid, we got in a cipher and battled each other lyrically. We told jokes and made the hottest dance moves.
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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I can totally identify with the younger kids. I'll never do what Jon Spencer did to me when I was 16, though. I made a tape with my friends and I put it onstage right near his mic stand by the pedal board and he pulled it out with his foot, kicked it to the center of the stage, looked me in the eye and stomped it to pieces.
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You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
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To the extent that I can serve as a role model or mentor for other women in what might be traditionally viewed as a male-dominated field, I welcome that.
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If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war.
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The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart.
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What are you doing for others?
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Difficult but worth it-- that's how my mother had once describe life with Omi.
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I am very much obliged to my dear little George for his message - for his love at least; his duty, I suppose, was only in consequence of some hint of my favourable intentions towards him from his father or mother. I am sincerely rejoiced, however, that I ever was born, since it has been the means of procuring him a dish of tea.
