Jane Austen Quotes
Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
Quotes to Explore
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I never cared about modeling. As a model, you're powerless.
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You can learn from everyone, the president or the cleaner. You need teachers in life, but they're not always school teachers or professors. You learn from ordinary people. You learn from travel, from just walking down the street.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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I absolutely welcome a full investigation into the for-profit schools because I think a majority of them are predatory.
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Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals? It's very stuck, whereas with electronic music, new sounds are being created.
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The climate has been changing since there was a climate.
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I've got a couple of Harleys and a couple of Ducatis.
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And they will tell you unequivocally that if we have a chemical or biological attack or a nuclear attack anywhere in this country, they are unprepared to deal with it today, and that is of high urgency.
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It doesn't matter if you don't have a complete set of anything because repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern.
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I am neither left wing nor right wing. I am middle-of-the-bird.
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What's amazing is that the Web enables you to build a kind of channel that wouldn't have made sense for cable, in the same way cable enabled you to build content that wouldn't have made sense for broadcast. You couldn't have done CNN with the broadcast networks; you couldn't have done MTV with the broadcast networks.
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I don't ever want to be sad about my life.
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I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
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By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
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Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process.
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I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.
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Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.
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I had never been in a supermarket before coming to America. At home, my parents wouldn't let me open the refrigerator, because they worried I'd damage the door by opening it too many times.
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I think that's the way to go - dive into the music and don't think, stay frozen, why don't we all stay frozen in time for awhile?
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I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
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Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
