Jane Austen Quotes
I cannot help hoping that many will feel themselves obliged to buy it. I shall not mind imagining it a disagreeable duty to them, so as they do it.
Quotes to Explore
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There is always pressure in football.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it.
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My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.
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The first job of a writer is to be honest.
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Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.
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We look for people who demonstrate perseverance in the face of challenges, the ability to influence and motivate others - people who want to work relentlessly to ensure that kids who are facing the challenges of poverty have an excellent education.
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I want to state clearly that I am a humanitarian, not an activist. I do not follow any agendas - only that of humanity, not only in Saudi Arabia, but all over the world.
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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I didn't realize it. It looks like my career happened overnight, but it didn't. I was basically living on my own from when I was 17 on.
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India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.
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Some of the authorities would like to remove rhythmic gymnastics from the list of Olympic sports and turn it into art. I think this would be wrong, as rhythmic gymnastics is a true sport - we train around six hours per day and sometimes spend entire days in the gym.
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I started sailing because I had to stop playing tennis so much, as I had bad knees.
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It's an honor for me to contribute to Houston's younger generations and show them that 'smart is cool.'
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I'm not a mother of children, but I'm a different type of mother where my approach to design is more in line with nature. It's less about dictating and more about editing and listening and allowing something to grow. So I nourish and let the material express what it wants to be.
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All the really pretty girls get pregnant.
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Give these Indians little farms, survey them, let them put fences around them, let them have their own horses, cows, sheep, things that they can call their own, and it will do away with tribal Indians.
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Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.
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I cannot help hoping that many will feel themselves obliged to buy it. I shall not mind imagining it a disagreeable duty to them, so as they do it.
