V. S. Pritchett Quotes
The present has its élan because it is always on the edge of the unknown and one misunderstands the past unless one remembers that this unknown was once part of its nature.
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Obviously, I am a huge Matt Morrison fan, and I am a big Lea Michele fan because I know those guys from way back.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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I was a tomboy.
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It's what happens in other major championships - I just lose my head a little bit.
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I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. I didn't want to be violated in that way.'
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In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.'
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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I am a Christian guy. And I am kind of quiet about it because I want people to take me seriously before I throw something that serious in their face.
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I believe it's easier to be an actor. Somehow, interviewing seems to be intrusive on people's lives.
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Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution.
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'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.
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I think I'm an okay parent, but I'd put myself in the category of a musician-who-happened-to-become-a-father. I'm definitely not a father-who-happened-to-be-a-musician.
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
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I think my basic viewpoint is that everything the left and right say about each other is true. And the reason it's true is because they have so much in common.
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But movies as much as anything developed what I thought was right and wrong, what was honorable, what wasn't, what was funny what wasn't... what had some depth to it, what didn't.
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Which is the greater wrong? To hurt the unforgiving one, or hurt the one who has forgiven all?
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Reports in matters of this world are many, and our resources of mind for the discrimination of them very insufficient.
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The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce.
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The present has its élan because it is always on the edge of the unknown and one misunderstands the past unless one remembers that this unknown was once part of its nature.
