Jane Austen Quotes
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
Zeljko Ivanek -
The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
F. H. Bradley -
You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.
Sam Graves -
As to which is cuter, a puppy or a baby, I'm going to say that probably depends less on the particular puppy and more on the baby. I've seen pictures of me as an infant and consider myself lucky that nobody ever offered my parents the opportunity to trade me for a beagle.
W. Bruce Cameron -
I've never been one for crushing on famous people.
Daisy Ridley
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I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.
Adam Giles -
I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it.
Edmund Barton -
I did 75 films. I didn't take a break; I didn't spend my money. I have my savings, so when you're not working for money anymore, then you should find things that are meaningful and not just be like, 'OK, that's another day gone.'
Maggie Cheung -
One of the books I remember reading when I was young and always thought would be a great role to play is Catherine in 'Wuthering Heights.' I like the classics.
Yvonne Strahovski -
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?
Rabbi Hillel -
If, in this country, a simple majority of people can start stripping away the rights of a protected class in the minority, that's a pretty alarming thing.
Gavin Newsom
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The food in south India is the food that I really love because it reminds me of home.
Aarti Sequeira -
A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.
E. B. White -
I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.
Camille Paglia -
India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.
Damon Galgut -
Chefs have only been able to work in restaurants, high-end cuisine. Why? Why haven't they been able to find other scenarios? For those chefs who want to do avant-garde cuisine, should they be finding their income in a restaurant?
Ferran Adria -
The sacrifice of our personal liberty for security is and will forever be a false choice.
Rand Paul
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I'm not afraid to eat breakfast at three in the morning. As a kid, I used to go to bed at 8 P.M., wake up at 1 A.M. when my grandma would cook me breakfast, and then I'd pass out again.
Taylor Hicks -
I left the theater; I literally left to begin a new life.
Elia Kazan -
A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears of a man of good faith. All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.
Alexandre Dumas -
There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.
Nagarjuna -
Only the surface of reason is rational. I don't mean that understanding emotion is easy, only that understanding reason is probably harder.
Marvin Minsky -
I have not the pleasure of understanding you.
Jane Austen