Jane Austen Quotes
Oh!” said she, “I heard you before, but I could not immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I know, to say ‘Yes,’ that you might have the pleasure of despising my taste; but I always delight in overthrowing those kind of schemes, and cheating a person of their premeditated contempt. I have, therefore made up my mind to tell you, that I do not want to dance a reel at all--and now despise me if you dare.” “Indeed I do not dare.
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I'm not a tech-savvy parent. I communicate with my children via the old-media format called yelling.
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I was an athlete, so I have kind of an athletic sensibility towards writing. I can work for many long hours without fatiguing.
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I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though.
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I have always lived in Amsterdam. During the war, we inhabited the Rivieren neighborhood where many Jews lived at the time. Our downstairs neighbors were Jews, and there were also Jews a few houses from us. We saw how they were rounded up and taken away. That made a very great impression on me.
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I've always found Mr. Disney to be somewhat of a shy person, a kid at heart.
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All in all, the dives I made in Fiordland were some of the best I've ever made.
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Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live.
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Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
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Our culture has a universal myth in which we see emotion as more complex and obscure than intellect. Indeed, emotion might be 'deeper' in some sense of prior evolution, but this need not make it harder to understand; in fact, I think today we actually know much more about emotion than about reason.
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Food has always brought me comfort and the bingeing is triggered when I'm in a space that is not positive.
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Cynicism and skepticism are the crudest form of quasi-intellectualism... Let the cynic become cynical of his cynicism and the skeptic skeptical of his skepticism and join the battle.
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So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.
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I like to interpose in all of my appointments, if the Lord wills.
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The Church did the most when the Church was the least like the world.
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You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.
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I own the night...the heat's my receipt.
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Let us all be men and women in full. Let us expect from ourselves more than we think we can give, more than we think we can do and more than we think we already know.
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What you remember saves you.
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I don't make music for any other reason than me enjoying music, and I am also glad that I am able to make a living of this.
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Evolution, thus, is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. No longer is a fixed object transformed, as in transformational evolution, but an entirely new start is, so to speak, made in every generation.
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It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the range of temperate discussion, no limits on thought. No subject must be taboo. No censor must preside at our assemblies.
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Oh!” said she, “I heard you before, but I could not immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I know, to say ‘Yes,’ that you might have the pleasure of despising my taste; but I always delight in overthrowing those kind of schemes, and cheating a person of their premeditated contempt. I have, therefore made up my mind to tell you, that I do not want to dance a reel at all--and now despise me if you dare.” “Indeed I do not dare.
