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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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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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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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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I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it.
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I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.
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There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
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Politicians make phony promises all the time that they can't deliver.
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I have always thought of music as a highway with many lanes.
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I couldn't stand back and watch the strong economy that my father envisioned go to ruins.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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Will [Smith] is not like preachy. He's more like lead by example. There's two ways to approach Will. You can follow or you can watch and learn, and I just kind of watched him and learned how he dealt with people, how he dealt with life and how he approaches his own work.
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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.
