Jane Austen Quotes
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Making music is pretty much the only thing I can do.
Washed Out
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
Ted Deutch
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Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year.'
Laura Benanti
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I wouldn't write about people who are living and who are close to me, because I think it's a very violent thing to do to another person. And anytime I have done it, even in the disguise of fiction, the results have been horrific.
Zadie Smith
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Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.
J. Philippe Rushton
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To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.
Zhang Yimou
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It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
Zig Ziglar
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I really don't want you to think of Qatar as a hydrocarbon country alone. We know that hydrocarbons will come and go. But education will stay. It is the most important thing for us.
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
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The musical is the one area of the theater that can give you the biggest buzz of all.
Cameron Mackintosh
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If you have life's experiences with you, nothing can stop you from being a competent actor.
Randeep Hooda
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I think Hong Kong's ballet audience is very sophisticated in the sense that they are able to find the beauty in good performances.
Yuan Yuan Tan
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The butt is not a magical place that only gay people can visit, like a leather bar or the Liberace Museum.
Dan Savage
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My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to kindle one! It seemed not so wild a dream.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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As the era of the sword was ending, that of firearms began, in time to allow no lapse in man’s belligerent capacity.
Barbara W. Tuchman
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The young tree of resistance in Palestine is blooming and blooms of faith and desire for freedom are flowering.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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The secret is that only that which can destroy itself is truly alive.
Carl Jung
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To destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him.
L. Frank Baum
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It was here at the age of seventeen that I suspended my religious inquiries.
Edward Gibbon
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The attempt to discover and promulgate the truth is nevertheless an obligation upon all scientists, one that must be persevered in no matter what the rebuffs-for otherwise what is the point in being a scientist?
Peter Medawar
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the cracked plate has to be retained in the pantry, has to be kept in service as a household necessity. It can never be warmed on the stove nor shuffled with the other plates in the dishpan; it will not be brought out for company but it will do to hold crackers late at night or to go into the ice-box with the left overs.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization.
Chen Guangcheng
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By no means was I trying to offend anyone in their organization. It was just something funny for the guys to laugh at in the locker room. They're our rivals, and I apologize if I offended anyone, but it was just a little joke.
Alecko Eskandarian
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Health care is very different from other sectors of the economy in several respects, one of which is the fact that the risk can be very high beyond people's ability. That leads to insurance.
Joseph Stiglitz
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I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.
Jane Austen