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“I liked it. I liked her. And every time I saw her, she seemed more beautiful. She just seemed to glow. I'm not talking like a hundred-watt bulb; she just had this warmth to her. Maybe it came from climbing that tree. Maybe it came from singing to chickens. Maybe it came from whacking at two-by-fours and dreaming about perpetual motion. I don't know. All I know is that compared to her, Shelly and Miranda seemed so...ordinary.”
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“The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me.”
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“Today's human rights violations are the causes of tomorrow's conflicts.”
Source : Mary Robinson (2010). “A Voice for Human Rights”, p.9, University of Pennsylvania Press
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“At the end of the day, you release music because you believe in the songs and believe that they're honest. That's all you can really hope for.”
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“Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, things will look different; if you go lower, again they will look different. It is a point of view.”
Source : "Jacques Lipchitz: The Artist at Work". Book by Bert Van Bork, p. 199, 1966.
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“Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.”
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“You should never ask anyone for anything. Never- and especially from those who are more powerful than yourself.”
Source : Mikhail Bulgakov (1967). “The master and Margarita [by] Mikhail Bulgakov”