"The Emperor died forsaken by all, on this horrible rock. (St. Helena) His death struggle was awful!"
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"All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot."
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"A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years."
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"The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of."
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"You can't be a great mum and work the whole time necessarily; those two things aren't ideal. We have an awful lot to work on and to debate about in relation to our working lives, because it isn't working for a lot of people, particularly for a lot of women."
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"I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar."
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"If you say to people that there's less violence today than in the past, they would be stunned to hear that. But it's the truth, even though we have awful things happening in Syria or Sudan."
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"The most awful tyranny is that of the proximate Utopia where the last sins are currently being eliminated and where, tomorrow, there will be no more sins because all the sinners will have been wiped out."
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"I listened, vaguely knowing now that I had committed some awful wrong that I could not undo, that I had uttered words I could not recall even though I ached to nullify them, kill them, turn back time to the moment before I had talked so that I could have another chance to save myself."
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"I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of what that person should say and I would put my words in his mouth."
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"I'm honest. It's the world that's awful."
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"If the death of Osama Bin Laden brings any peace to those who lost loved ones on that awful day in September 2001, that is a great thing. It is more likely, however, just a painful reminder of what was lost."
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"..it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world...It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel."
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"I just think that we show an awful lot of deference to chefs in our culture and maybe not enough deference to customers."
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"There are an awful lot of readers who won't pick up a book if they think it's got anything horrific in it, or paranormal or whatever."
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"I was awful at science at school, as a subject, because I didn't have the discipline. But, I was awful at music, as well, and I loved music."
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"The minister today preached about death and judgment, and what would become of those who behaved improperly - and somehow it scared me. He preached such an awful sermon I didn't think I should ever see you again until the Judgment Day. The subject of perdition seemed to please him somehow."
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"Something, or something awful or something wonderful was certain to happen on every day in this part of Africa."
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"People have an awful lot of problems that society has put on them and a lot to work through because of it."
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"I would go to work on the show and I felt awful every day, that's not the way it was. ... I felt like some kind of prostitute or something. If I feel so bad, why keep on showing up to this place? I'm going to Africa. The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching."
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