"The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one."

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Source : William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.111

William Shenstone

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“But being an American woman married to an Arab guy - and a Muslim to boot! - put me in a different category. People would open up, and tell me things that they would never tell another journalist, no matter how persistent.”

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“The people are different in L.A. There was a time when I lived in New York and that was a bit of a shock, because everybody in New York was so honest, instead of so polite and backstabbing. But you learn to love the backstabbing politeness in L.A.”

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“You have to work in this business on your own terms. Don't sell out for money, fame, or notoriety.”
“During the long ages of class rule, which are just beginning to cease, only one form of sovereignty has been assigned to all men--that, namely, over all women. Upon these feeble and inferior companions all men were permitted to avenge the indignities they suffered from so many men to whom they were forced to submit.”
“One must never be either content with, or impatient with, oneself.”
“The first step to be taken by everyone who wishes to act morally is to decide not to act according to the general customs and doings of his fellow-men.”

Source : "The Range of Reason". Book by Jacques Maritain (p. 137), 1952.
“All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences.”
“I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.”

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