Coventry Patmore Quotes

Having my law the seventh time disobey'd,I struck him, and dismiss'dWith hard words and unkiss'd,-His Mother, who was patient, being dead.

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• In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!

  

  Aasif Mandvi
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• I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
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• I think people can tell when you're pandering to them, and they feel insulted. I think that one thing that is really nice about the work that I do is that I can just sort of make mistakes or try out different ideas or be inconsistent and be vulnerable.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
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• A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

  

  Garrison Keillor
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• Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?

  

  Basil Bunting
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• Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.

  

  Sally Hawkins
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• I'm a little angry in life.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Life
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  • Little

• Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.

  

  Oscar Robertson
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  • Game
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• In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.

  

  Tadao Ando
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• The crown of literature is poetry.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Poetry
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• When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.

  

  Rachel Bloom
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• I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
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• I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.

  

  Jack Kemp
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• It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.

  

  Garth Brooks
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• I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
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• Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.

  

  Dana Perino
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• Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
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• Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

  

  Edmund Burke
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• I'm never really going to be the normal teenager.

  

  Maisie Williams
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• I believe that if Democrats - not any one Democrat, and certainly not just me - want to start winning races again, Lujan's statement that the DCCC would fund candidates who oppose abortion rights puts our country in danger and makes it all the more likely that the Republicans will continue to defeat us in election after election.

  

  Laura Moser
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• One of the marvelous blessings of the Book of Mormon is that it contains, in clarity, revelations reserved to come forth in this dispensation of time. Much of the knowledge that we have relating to the principle of moral agency is found in these modern revelations.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
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• Life has been very hard on me, but, at the same time, it has taught me a great deal.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• One time I went to a hotel. I asked the bellhop to handle my bag. He felt up my wife!

  

  Jack Roy
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• Having my law the seventh time disobey'd,I struck him, and dismiss'dWith hard words and unkiss'd,-His Mother, who was patient, being dead.

  

  Coventry Patmore
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