"Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde."
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"It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?"
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"Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world."
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"I'm never going to starve myself for a part. I don't want little girls to be like, 'Oh, I want to look like Katniss, so I'm going to skip dinner.' That's something I was really conscious of during training, when you're trying to get your body to look exactly right. I was trying to get my body to look fit and strong-not thin and underfed."
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"Seeing what is wrong and how it could be made right propels us into action, but in that action we often leave other people behind and don't give ourselves enough time to be present, or to stop and reflect. Leaders have to get comfortable with pausing in that uncomfortable gap."
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"I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people."
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"It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts."
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"Something of God... flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself."
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"Willpower is nothing but willingness to do."
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"Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life."
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"And if we walk away now, if we simply retreat into our respective corners, we will never be able to come together and solve challenges like health care, or education, or the need to find good jobs for every American."
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"There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them."
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"How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success."
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"People associate feminism with hate - with man hate - and that's really negative. I don't think that's what feminism is about at all - it's really positive. I think that's why women became reluctant to use the word."
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"The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing."
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"The angels are a strange genus: they are precisely what they are and cannot be anything else. They are in themselves soulless beings who represent nothing but the thoughts and intuitions of their Lord."
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"Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair."
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"Never confuse motion with action."
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"The normal experience of the body and its aging is a conditioned response (a habit of thinking and behavior). By changing your habits of thinking and behavior, you can change the experience of your body and its aging"
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"Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen."
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