"The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone."
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"I really miss being able to blend in with people."
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"When a writer receives praise or blame, when he arouses sympathy or is ridiculed, when he is loved or rejected, it is not on the strength of his thoughts and dreams as a whole, but only of that infinitesimal part which has been able to make its way through the narrow channel of language and the equally narrow channel of the reader's understanding."
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"It was curious that when we had been able to buy new clothes when we wanted we had never really appreciated them nor enjoyed them. You have to be in the position of needing things very badly indeed before you can appreciate possessing them."
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"[Vanity] is an unrecognised form of stupidity, you have to forget the cosmic meaninglessness of all our acts to be able to be vain and that's a glaring form of stupidity."
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"Whether people grow fat by joking, or whether there is something in fat itself which predisposes to a joke, I have never been quite able to determine."
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"Even were the workers able to have their own representatives, for which our good Socialist politicians are clamoring, what chances are there for their honesty and good faith?"
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"I just like to keep working and being able to pay my bills."
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"There is never a right or wrong time to have kids; it happens for whatever reason, but you can have this paranoia: 'will I be able to do this, I'm not sure if I'm ready to have kids?'"
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"I have voted for the ANC, but I would very sadly not be able to vote for them after the way things have gone."
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"My name, Diana Ross, is my name and nobody should be able to use that for exploitative purposes but me."
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"I never have changed in my taste, and the things that I love, and the way that I act, and all that. I never wanted to change, I just wanted to be successful, and be able to do more things for more people, and for myself as well."
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"To be able to play as slow as Al Jackson is almost impossible."
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"Who expects to be able to go out of a house except by the door? How is it then that no one follows this Way of ours?"
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"What are you going to do?,' he asked me. Me? Nothing. Something has just been broken inside me; you yourself will never be able to repair it."
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"Microsoft does not dominate the software industry by any stretch of the imagination. We have lots of very able competitors who keep us constantly vigilant, and sometimes they beat us to the punch. Microsoft's success to date is based solely on the fact that people like Microsoft software."
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"The great gifts of models are not that they're more beautiful than the next person, it's that they're able to be photographed and not be self-conscious."
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"Do not be surprised. I do not like writers and I cannot stand their lies. They speak so as not to listen to themselves speak. If they did listen, they would know that they are nothing and then they would no longer be able to speak."
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"We can't do without dominating others or being served.... The essential thing, in sum, is being able to get angry without the other person being able to answer back."
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"It's been my experience that the longer I do yoga, the more I want to know, the more I am able to understand and the less judgmental I am."
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