Jane Austen Quotes
To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
Quotes to Explore
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Making music is pretty much the only thing I can do.
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There is a saying: 'The child is parent to the adult', which means whatever happens to you as a child or teenager affects the adult you become. You are forged in your history. And fiction is an incredibly important force in shaping children, and that's why fiction needs to be diverse.
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When you've grown sick of reading and bug-eyed from watching TV, when your friends are all visited out, no words can adequately praise the link to the outside world provided by your parents and family.
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Readers appreciate the truth. Why say, 'Some think a situation is a mess?' Based on my reporting, if a situation is a mess, then I say that. The truth is always what reporters tell each other when they get back to the newsroom.
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You change the world by being yourself.
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I'm a cereal girl. I have always loved my cereal ever since I was a kid.
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What entrepreneurs and artists have in common is that they give the world something it didn't know it was missing.
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Everything happens to me. I've never had a streak of luck in my life.
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I love 'Jane Eyre,' and I love the Bronte sisters. I actually didn't read any of them until I was in college, so I don't have quite the same connection with them that I think a lot of women do.
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The whole spirit of 'Eddie The Eagle' is that it's the taking part that counts, not the winning.
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It never cost a disciple anything to follow Jesus; to talk about cost when you are in love with anyone is an insult.
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Agreement has now been reached that negotiations on Turkey's accession to the European Union can and will begin in the very near future.
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I think that once you've produced a conformist, a totally conformist society, a society in which there were no critics, that would in fact be an exact equivalent of the totalitarian societies against which we are supposed to be fighting in a cold war.
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The average man finds life very uninteresting as it is. And I think the reason why is that he is always waiting for something to happen to him instead of setting to work to make things happen
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I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about.
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I don't care when people use the term 'one-Slam wonder' with me.
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Your financial success is directly related to the size of the problem you solve for other people (solve BIG problems and you'll make BIG money).
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I am a daughter, a sister, a wife and a mother. I am a friend of women and I am their advocate.
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Making art, I try to just gently persist, instead of having freak-outs where I'm like, Oh, my god, I'll never draw again. You are going to draw again, so you might as well relax.
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It's important to do something outside the box, and maybe that'll inspire people do also do something outside the box.
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Mrs. Boffin, insisting that Bella should make tomorrow's expedition in the chariot, she went home in great grandeur. Mrs. Wilfer and Miss Lavinia had speculated much on the probabilities and improbabilities of her coming in this gorgeous state, and, on beholding the chariot from the window at which they were secreted to look out for it, agreed that it must be detained at the door as long as possible, for the mortification and confusion of the neighbours.
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To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
