Joseph Conrad Quotes

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.

Joseph Conrad

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: polish
  • Birth: December 3, 1857 - August 3, 1924

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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.

John Berger

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I'm comfortable with my body but I don't like my bum - I think it's too big.

Jennifer Ellison

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Television, for me, is great because I love to act, every day. I love to work that muscle. I love to learn, and I love to be able to just do what I love. It's when I'm at my best. So, I love TV for that reason because it's every day.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

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It is publication week for my new novel 'The Sunshine Cruise Company.' Go me! Anyway, I may as well get the shameless plug over with right away - buy it. You'll like it. It's about a bunch of old ladies who rob a bank.

John Niven

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So far as I am concerned, I think more of reasons than of reputations, more of principles than of persons, more of nature than of names, more of facts than of faiths.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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I feel like I've won every year the show has been picked up by Logo because, really, nothing beats a paycheck.

RuPaul

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When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream.

Michel Gondry

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I love hidden things. When you buy something with quality, you like the inside to be as beautiful as the outside. Nobody's going to see it, but you know it's there.

Mindy Grossman

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We can all agree that no American should lose their life savings or their home because of illness or injury and that the rising cost of health care severely burdens individuals, families and businesses.

Judd Gregg

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I have a hard time being career-minded, but I want to be able to survive as an actor and do work that I think is important and that says something.

Jason Ralph

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Doors that presented themselves before, which I couldn't walk through, are at least there. And there are a few keyholes I can pick.

Colin Morgan

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I never looked at magazines before I started modeling. I was 13 or 14, and none of my friends were into magazines. We were into the fashion of the day, though.

Christy Turlington

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