Jane Austen Quotes
Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
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I didn't just get to 75 years by tiptoeing. I had to work hard sometimes.
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People like music when they're in love, but they don't need it as much. You need music when you're missing someone or you're pining for someone or you're forgetting someone or you're trying to process what just happened.
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It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.
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I like working with my own body weight, and I just do the best job I can to be healthy and strong, both before and after a fight.
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Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
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I'm a military guy. I'm not a political character.
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I would love to work with Reese Witherspoon.
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The hardest thing is at the end you have to say bye to all these people who you have worked with for so many months. It was really sad not to see them anymore. But you have the parties that you go to and you get to see them, like the premieres and the screenings.
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There are some people that the press like to pick on and not just the gay press, but the press in general. And some people, the press just doesn't care about at all.
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I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.
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A man does not kill himself, as is commonly supposed, in a fit of madness but rather in a fit of unendurable lucidity, in a paroxysm which may, if so desired, be identified with madness; for an excessive perspicacity, carried to the limit and of which one longs to be rid at all costs, exceeds the context of reason.
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Your primary role should be to share what you know, not to tell people how things should be done.
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The radio was an improvement on the telegraph but it didn't have the same exponential, transformative effect.
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You have the ability and gifts to do whatever you want". It is your turn now to change the world. Yes we can!
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Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all.
